Some four years ago I wrote an article very similar to this and stated that according to the Harris Interactive Trend research findings, Americans had experienced good and bad from social media, however it was also felt that “Social media had opened the door to increasingly numerous ways for people to interact with others, customize their online experiences and receive positive, enriching benefits from their activity therein.”
The challenge of Social Media will be felt more by people who have an old mindset rather than by those of more senior years, therefore, it is not the people who are “old” age wise, that did not benefit specifically, but people who have an “old” mindset and cannot embrace the new.
What I said then was that “the tendency we all have to try something new, to be open to something new or even to someone with different viewpoints from our own, is limited to no-one really and any limitations are solely within our own minds.
My partner said at the time I wrote the article that that the people resistant to change were never around for the fall of the iron curtain and the communist regime, where she and others saw the power of the masses and the evolution of people awareness and people power; within moments, everything had changed forever. And still some have not recovered from the change!
Now, it is even more the case, as we have seen on Twitter, whenever events of historic proportions take on entirely new perspectives and when the Twitter stream and other online technology goes into full steam.
We do need to embrace social media for many reasons, and especially if we work from home, because there are a few pitfalls to working from home and primarily discipline or the lack of it underpins most of them. Social Media unless used judiciously can be a huge time suck!
Scheduling your social media is vital if you’re using it for business and there are many applications to help you with your scheduling tasks so you can maintain a certain balanced lifestyle.
We often forget to enjoy the work we have chosen and sharing our successes and challenges can be a great way to re-energise ourselves and seek help where needed. Social media can be one avenue whereby this can happen easily and quickly and where it is possible to fast track our business and live the life that we once hoped we could live.
Cheers
Chris Borrett
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