Here is what my lived experience is of the social norms around networking and connections online: Share often Reference and give credit to others Participate in conversation Use consistent themes I started to realize that this was a way of thinking that was very isolating and individually centric. Strategies, if you will, that seem less [...]
Grey, cold skies chill the bones of relationships. The wind forces a relationship between water and land, soggy sand erodes into cloudy water. Footprint now gone. A new order takes frozen communities and imperfectly rejuvenates them. Connection means energy, like the white crest of a wave waiting to crash. Creation in the face of destruction, [...]
So why, why, why do we keep hearing about social media, especially Twitter? Twitter only has 20 million users, which is nothing when compared to MySpace and Facebook, 60+ and 90+ million respectively. Yet we keep hearing about Twitter. Even though its growth has stopped skyrocketing, its usefulness has not. The exact reasons why Twitter [...]
Is it love from my parents? Should I have been coddled more? Communities form around sharing of some kind, the mutual fellowship or shared experience. I often question my ability to contribute to the communities I am in. This is especially unclear in how casually the word community can be used. Even Wikipedia states that [...]
