Social Networking whilst Socially Networking
I attended a friends barbeque at the weekend and during the beer and food fuelled festivities found myself in the company of three people that i did not know so i started to make conversation...
Me: “So, how do you know Niccy?” (the birthday girl J)
Response number 1: “Well, Niccy and i grew up together in South Africa. We hadn’t seen or spoken to each other for near on 15 years. I saw her profile on Friends re-united and got in touch. Found out we both now live about 2 miles apart!!” – cool
Response number 2: “Nic and I worked together but lost touch a couple of years ago. We connected a few weeks back on facebook” – cooler
Response number 3: “yeh, facebook too but we actually got back in touch through myspace ” – very cool
The invites for the Party were also distributed through facebook !!
My learnings...... Social Networking is a huge contributor to globalisation, these people were scattered across the demographic, Niccy spends far too much time on the internet, South Africans do a mean braai !!
