According to eMarketer.com, there were about 135 Million Social Media users in 2010 (based upon the use of any social media device at least once per month). This is roughly 60% of Internet users. In the 45-54 year old group (the home of this Old Dog at age 53), a 53% majority of Internet users were also Social Media users.
Social Media isn't coming, it's here. Are you participating?
You can:
1) Run with the Big Dogs
2) bark with the little dogs
3) or sleep on the porch
Your call, but as this shorter version of an earlier favorite video reminds us, don't wait too long to decide.
Thanks for sharing 148 seconds of your day,
Smitty
1 comment:
Computers are great until they don't work or I don't do the right keystrokes. I just lost my detailed response due to my password not being accepted by Google yet I had reset it before I came in to write my response.
Anyway, here goes again.
So what about all this growth in social media, internet access to mass amounts of information? Are we any better off today than we were prior to the internet? Will access to more information save us from killing each other? Will it make me a better dad, a better husband, a better citizen? I like what computers can do for us but more information I can take or leave. More means to communicate with my neighbor? Will that really help me? Will information save us? Will God not be able to save us unless we have access to all this information? Will redemption and reconciliation be only available to those who have internet access? Ask the people in Japan, Christ Church New Zealand, Chile, Haiti, how the internet is working for them now after their recent earthquakes.
Many of you may or may not know of the story of Ulysses. He was seduced as many of us men are by the beautiful sound of a woman calling us to her. These voices or "sirens" called him and he desperately wanted to go but he knew that if is ship got close to the shoals the rocks would break his hull and his ship would sink. So he had wax put in the ears of his oarsman and had himself tied to the mast. As they approached the sirens seducing call he shouted to his oarsmen to turn the ship toward them. They could not obey his command since they could not hear him nor the sirens.
So for now I am bound to my "mast" and my hands are tied as you find out for me the benefit of all this information so that I don't become seduced by it.
As one of my inspiring teachers, Dr. Bruce Bickel taught me, "If it's not new, it's now true; and if it's true, it's not new."
Or as the band "DAWES" sang in their debut album, "North Hills" in their tune "When my time comes":
"As if something that's written should be taken as true . . . And now the only piece of advice that continues to help: Is anyone that's making anything new only breaks something else."
Sig Tragard
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