Networking Shmetworking

http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikejames2012

This is the link to my linkedin public profile. Where I network with other profiles in hopes of getting connected to a bigger profile and increase my online presence and more hits and yadda yadda yadda yadda.

This social networking stuff is confusing. I've got all these key words and abbreviations and Internet jargon giving me a real pain in the mother board. New media is something I took an interest in immediately and could see that it was the future.

Helping with the convergence of Franklin College's TV show Inside Franklin and the newspaper, The Franklin into the online college news outlet was an incredible experience and an eye opening one.

http://www.thefranklinonline.com

Little did we know what we had been working on would soon become the standard in how media is delivered to the audience.

But now two years later the new media/social networking beast has become something foreign to even me.

When I got on to Twitter a while back one of my friend's asked me to describe what is was to them.

I thought for a moment and really had difficulty explaining. The best I could do was say that it's a lot like when I found my first Playboy at 6 yrs old. I had no idea what I was looking at but new it was something great.

I read blogs of other people that somehow have countless hours of time on their hands to master the networking power. My BA in journalism feels more and more inadequate with the ability for any schmuck to write out a 140 character news story and have thousands read it instantly.

Guess I'll join the race with everybody else but for some reason wished that important messages were still delivered on horseback. It forced the messages to be well composed and to the point. Because if you wrote a message like...

"Heather isn't even here. How weird? LMFAO!"

And some dude had to ride a pony day and night for three days to deliver that message. That pony express rider would most likely turn right around, ride back and punch that stupid bitch in the face.

This would surely over time increase the intelligence and communication ability of the human race. It's just a theory but let's bail on the computer and just get ponies.