<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 17, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>I refuse to use facebook. If someone wants _me_ to know something they can stop being a lazy narcissist and send me an email.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "><br></blockquote></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I used to say the same about texting and pagers before that. "Why can't they just use the phone if there's an emergency" and then "why can't they just call me? They have a phone in their hand."</div><div><br></div><div>Thing is, like the PC before it and phones before that, we get left behind if we don't at least have presence on the "de-facto" standard communications methods of the day. Sure, they're a pain, and sure they're not what we're used to, but you could make similar arguments about the adoption of the phone, email, pagers, online forums, TXTing, and now Facebook.</div><div><br></div><div>Just because the culture we grew up in didn't include these things doesn't mean they're not what's up with communications today.</div><div><br></div><div>Take our drum corps for instance: <a href="http://corpsvets.org">http://corpsvets.org</a> We have all age groups from 13 - ***</div><div><br></div><div>We used to do everything by mailing list (est. 1998). That was fine for awhile until we noticed marked reduction in participation. I took over the mailing list and set up the first forums with a gateway between the forums and the mailing list. All of a sudden we were back to nearly 100% participation. over a few years, this too started to fall off. Then we added a CC: to a distribution mechanism that would TXT people who wanted it (the tech behind that...a manually aliased email address to <a href="mailto:XXXXXXXXXX@txt.att.net">XXXXXXXXXX@txt.att.net</a> according to carrier's particular method). We had a small bump and then a meteoric drop off. No matter what we did by all of the communications methods we had, no one would answer/acknowledge announcements (especially teens/college). </div><div><br></div><div>It wasn't until we set up our Facebook presence that communications shot back up to normal levels.</div><div><br></div><div>When you meet someone today, they ask for your Facebook. Not your phone#, not your IM or even email. They ask for your Facebook. I'm starting to see it even in businesses. I keep LinkedIN for business and Facebook for casual, but I can see a world where LinkedIn ultimately declines and FB adds a business services portion. I really don't know why they haven't done it yet.</div><div><br></div><div>Point is, we can stick to our guns and hold out to our currently-held values. That most certainly has its benefits for us, but in the world of today I can't imagine that being good for us in the long run. Point is, by saying "lazy narcissist" at those with a FB presence, what is the difference between that and saying the same thing at the advent of the telephone? </div><div><br></div><div>This is a new world and it's much younger than we are, and today's grads are tomorrow's employers. As we age, they will ultimately be our employers. If we want to play on the handball court where everyone is, we're going to have to acquire a racket, like it or not.</div><div><br></div><br><div>
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