Archive for the ‘Technology’ category

Compassion, sympathy, support…via Twitter friends?

June 4, 2009

One of the common – but faulty - beliefs about social media, especially tools such as Twitter, is that it is not really communication.  How can messages that are less than 140 characters carry any real meaning?  How can relationships grow in such short spurts?  Well, you might be surprised.  I came across a real life [...]

Old people like you…

April 7, 2009

I knew the day would come. I just didn’t know when.  Someone would call me old – and mean it!  This was not my children teasing me about my age (which, by the way, is only 51!!).  This was not my younger co-workers joking about my age (in a most friendly way, of course).  No, no, this was [...]


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