365QOD- Day641

“I can’t wait to go home and blog about this!” – fan’s statement after a football game

 

I went to a football game the other day.  The game was OK but it came down to a couple of last plays that made a difference.  The home team lost and the fan uttered these words on the way out of the stadium.

 

The first thought I had was how the world has changed.  The probability of those words being uttered a decade ago would have been almost zero.  Now they not only make sense but seem natural. 

 

The social media presence in our world is getting to be a bigger and bigger fact.  We wan to connect to others and that seems like the way to do it.  At times it seems we are connecting to through the social media but not communicating with the people around us. 

 

I believe that the social media presence can help build our brand over time BUT we must also nurture the relationships with the people around us.  The main difference for me is that the online is asynchronous(at any time) while relationships require synchronous(in real time) communication. 

 

Today’s question is:

“Do you neglect the relationships you are in for the ease of communicating through social media?”