I am social. I am geeky. I am connected… all the time.
I can’t get through the day without someone asking me how I am able to be omnipresent on the web. It’s simple. I am co-dependent on my online life just as much as I am on my offline one. Nah… not really. Kind of.
For a while now, I’ve been tossing the idea of what makes me such a social media addict, and have decided to confess some of the few things that qualify me as such. Most people who know me already know these things, but I don’t mind making myself vulnerable by putting pen to paper and listing them out for all to see. You can take them as confessions… or you can take it as a way to confirm your own addiction — and I KNOW there are those of you out there who are just like me — don’t worry, I won’t make you stand up. Anyway, here goes… (please … no judging!!)
The standard pose of a social media addict: sitting at a place where everyone knows my name with wine in one hand and my computer in another
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I’m someone who lives what they work, and works what they live. I can’t help it. I’ve always been that way.
But I know a lot of people who successfully separate their professional lives from their personal ones. As companies strive to bring more “work / life” balance into corporate culture (and I think this is a good thing) is these lines are becoming less defined. As we, as companies, organizations and individuals, use social technologies to share and post information related to our interests or business, we inadvertently blur these lines even more.
Most recently, one of the projects that I’m involved in [and quite enthusiastically I might add] is asking a select group of employees to use their own social profiles to communicate company information and brand voice to their networks as it relates to their personal interests and ideas. Personally, I think this is a wonderfully innovative method for a company to use employees, who are already active in social media, to not only provide public relations but to also help direct customer service questions / issues to appropriate channels, enforce go-to-market-messaging, and humanize the company overall. But this also means that traditional separation of business from personal lives no longer exist.
And this begs the question: Are we creating a culture of social invention or one that will ultimately need a social intervention? I’m not making this stuff up, folks. Trust me, as I’m writing this, I’m sitting here thinking “Yep, I qualify for a social intervention.”
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