Yesterday I was doing one of my favorite things to do.  I was sitting outside on a beautiful morning with my Sunday edition of the New York Times.   I love this.  I feel so cultured and involved.  Inside the paper is the New York Times Magazine and an article by Bill Keller that got me on my weekend soapbox!  It was titled, “The Twitter Trap”.   It was a great article that hit home enough that made me want to respond to issues I have been having with social media lately.  Below is the link to the article and what I said in the comment section.  Feel free to comment to either or both if it hits home to you too…….

Article:  http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/this-is-your-brain-on-twitter/

My comment to the article:

Thank you for this article. I know this article was difficult to write because we are always afraid of the backlash of putting a negative on new things/technology but I have felt firsthand this thing we call “social” media, at times to be not so “social”!

I was so gung ho in the front end of my social media pursuits and was enjoying my sharing, reading and discussing new things but there are only so many hours in a day!! I was taking so much time trying to stay on top of my “social” computer areas that I was ignoring the things around me that “are” truly “social”, like my family, friends, business associates, etc. The actual human part of being “social”.

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