Possible Job

I have been working as a temp agent for a software company for about 11 months now. Of course for sometime now I have been hoping to get hired full time by the company (meaning they would buy out my temp. contract). Well, cross your figures, it might actually happen soon. I would be moving from customer support to the Social Media Coordinator position (which means lots of Twitter and Facebook for me). Its actually something that I have a great deal of interest in. There is something kind of fun about connecting with people and sharing information over social media.

Social media is such an interesting new part of the human interaction. My grandparents would never have dreamed of email when they were kids growing up at the end of World War 2. The fact that we can 'friend' people on a Internet page and keep track with calling or writing a letter is a little weird to them even now. And that does not even touch upon how 'connected' we have all become. On Facebook I have over 300 friends (I know people with a whole lot more), most of these friends are people from school, church, or work. A few are friends of friends of friends who I've met once and have not seen since. On Twitter (which I joined in early this past summer), I have almost 30 followers. Meaning that there are actually people out there who care what I can say in 140 characters.

Actually its Twitter that I find so amazing. When I first started I thought that it was a rather random way to connect to people and get information. Now I love it. I learn so much from the articles posted by all the random news organizations that I am following. I'm also amazing how easy it is to promote things through Twitter. For some of you, you found this post because I Tweeted it (or maybe through Facebook). Everything is connected, everything feeds into everything else. I don't read a news paper (I mean the printed kind), I don't watch news on the TV (some times I'll watch something short online), yet I feel decently well informed about a lot of what is going on.

I guess the real questions is... Is social networking a good thing? Go ahead tell me what you think. (Personally I think its OK as long as it is not the only means of communication, but your comments are still welcome.)