Well, hello there and thanks for surfing my wave!
Clearly, the world is changing – good, bad or indifferent, however this global fiasco pans out, everyone will be living a life unlike the one we had at the beginning of the new millennium; perhaps the hiccups we were trying to prevent and avoid almost a decade ago are now rearing their ugly heads and we are being blind-sided by it all, unexpectedly. Maybe it took this enormous economic earthquake to make us realize how different the world really is. Are we operating today the way we did ten years ago? Not a chance…
If we take a look at growing up on this planet, we’ll see how the globe turned us on our ears without us knowing it. For those of you who don’t have children, you certainly come in contact with friends who do, yes? Do you hear parents (and others) complaining about things not being the way they used to be? I don’t just mean prices; that goes without saying. I’m talking about complete overhauls. In the last 10 years we communicate, research, purchase, commute, handle finances and even work in different ways then yesterday. Dogs don’t eat homework anymore. Junior throws sisters’ flash drive into the trash compacter and now Mary’s term paper is gone forever, or the computer printer jams and it’s 3am and your local office supply store is out of paper and the part to repair it. The power just went out or your hard drive crashed or the monitor fried…something other than your pet just peed on it. Modern excuses to age-old problems.
Do you think this unemployment rut could be a good thing? We are on the ground floor of developing platforms for everything mankind touches. Don’t you want to get your hands on it before someone steals it away? Being unemployed pushes and forces us to come to grips with current systems in use, methods of doing things that had never applied to us and, quite honestly, never thought we’d need to bother learning. But, it’s upon us so we might as well take a positive look and make the best of it.
Did anyone know what Social Media was ten years ago? Maybe a communicable disease or some cliquish hangout for the wealthy or journalist where an individual could contract one of those. What was it originally designed for or its intended purpose? Why do the masses need it? According to Wikipedia, “It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers.” So it’s the sharing of ideas and information, whereby sharing assumes some sort of social act. It turns us into not only the users, but more importantly, we can now create our own material for publication which we can then transform into a commodity for global use and the cycle repeats. We are, in essence, put in charge of our own destiny; can we control the world? Uh, not so fast. No, but we are in an incredible and dynamic position to come up with pioneering ways to control ourselves and what we do in a fashion never before possible or imagined. What we are given is the coveted opportunity of self-discovery. Where else can we generate substantive materials and instantly find out if it works or not then by utilizing Social Media platforms?
Like most things in life, people don’t start getting the picture until the tube goes dark and there’s nothing left to see. Human nature is to not need something until it’s taken away. When we have it, new or old, we wonder how we lived without it. Where would civilization be without our greatest inventors of the 19th (and 20th) Centuries? We would be an extremely sorry, hopeless and helpless society. We wouldn’t be able to see in the dark, we definitely wouldn’t be able to communicate or travel anywhere and commerce would be unheard of; talk about a dismal economy. We’d all be homeless as well. We are now the builders of the newest frontiers that the next generation will look back on. Let’s seize the moment!
So as we sit and stare at these devices of the here and now, we must take advantage of it. Social Media is worldwide, comprehensive, immediate, and open 24 hrs; no need to wait for an answer anymore. If you’re not getting the answers you want, we now thrive on an earth in which you can create your own answers by asking yourself the right questions. What do you want out of life, your job-search? Is there something else out there you can be productively pursuing? Is there something more than what you’ve already been doing or attempting? If you can think it, with Social Media, you can express it. If there is something you think we need, explore it. If you don’t, given the tools of today, someone else will – and quicker. If your communications are only one-way, if you’re only sending correspondences from a computer to some Company’s’ inbox hoping for a jackpot, you’ve already lost the game. Show what you have for all to see by using your network and the world’s’ network by using Social Media.
You might not think it exists, but someone out there does…and will show you the way. Now, go find it – or create it to be found!
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