(WORLD) This is quite fun.
Social media is like the classic Swiss Army Knife—can be used in so many ways.
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I know we've done nearly all of these and over time I'm wondering how this will change?
Will more generic things start to appear like 'plan a wedding', 'buy a car', 'find a man/woman' etc.
What do you think?
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March 4th, 2010
I’m thinking they won’t change. The results above are all connected by Money.
If you look at our physical survival requirements, I certainly wouldn’t use SM to deal with my Health – I’d visit a Dr. I wouldn’t use it to find food – I’d beg, borrow or steal to survive (if absolutely necessary). And lets face it, you wouldn’t use SM for warmth or finding water either!
So Social Media is absolutely useless for personal Physical Survival requirements – and anyone that tries to use it for such things, probably isn’t that desperate in the first place.
For Money, that’s to do with safety and security, and this is where Social Media excels. We can use it to cry for help to be protected, find help in giving ourselves shelter, get advice and assistance on issues of morality, health, family, employment and of course find peace, whether thats internal issues like dealing with grief or love, or external issues like reconciliation of individuals or even fighting countries.
I believe those of us that work with, and become increasingly more exposed to social media and its personal benefits, will move on in our wants and needs, but this will just make way for the next wave of humanity and get their hands on this technology to help solve their problems. And as we know, there are many many millions of people in the world that seriously need assistance, once we have all moved on to other desires.
In a nutshell, I think the terminology may change but the basic desire to better oneself financially will remain.
Anyone have an opinion?
March 4th, 2010
Bettering ourselves financially is the way in our current society to meet most the broader needs for physical survival. Social media is the latest [unless you tell me something else I need to get my head round is already off the block]tool in a line that starts around flint axes.
Not rocks/sticks because all you need to do is pick those up and whack away. The human looks at the rock and has an ‘aha’ moment in terms of seeing that by adjusting it, tweaking it to suit my particular hand and eye, my purpose, I’ll get a literal edge and an advantage over my prey – and my next door neighbour who is coming along the same hunt trail.
We need to learn to hone these new tools, and not just whack away with them obviously – so over to you on that!
But the words that define humanity best may well be ‘hold on, we’re coming’ and Social Media is having a hugely powerful effect on how we get to know who needs our help and letting them know they have been heard. This is working alongside our grasping it to better ourselves, rather than as a belated add on.
If capitalism has anything to offer [answers on a postage stamp...if you remember what one of those was] it is that when it works well enough for enough of us we feel safe in giving some of our benefits to the others behind us on the trail. Social Media offers the possibilites of new sightlines along the trail and ways to understand the real needs of others, directly and personally.
I think we haven’t yet got to the stage where enough of us know enough about how Social Media works already to start thinking ‘aha’, but when we do then the ‘using social media to’ list will move way out of the search engine box.We’ll be creating tools and finding ways to use them as a result of the chances and changes in life on a scale never known before.
Social Media as a channel for the wellspring of human kindness and betterment of the world? It would be good to hope for it at any rate.
March 8th, 2010
Mark & Tricia – awesome responses which I wouldn’t be able to give respect to by responding (as don’t have the intellect or vocabulary). Appreciate your time folks.