Social Media

Social media. The tool of Gen Y and Millennials. Everyone's doing it-amidst much controversy about how privacy standards are lax or that it's not really "connection" that's happening on these forums. It's unfortunate that we've confused technological "connection" with authentic connection or real connection. There are so many ways we can hide in plain site on these social media platforms. Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. Pintrest. LinkedIn. There is no shortage of tools we can mobilize to connect to people, but these tools are not helping us facilitate real connection with people. So much "connecting" with people is done on a superficial level that we aren't even sure what real connection feels like anymore. Social media has it's place. We can communicate easily with people, we can touch base with people, but real connection happens in real time. With real people.