Every Saturday Rio, Bryn and Evan swim for Dover Lifeguard’s Club. This weekend Tamzin is away on a fitness weekend at Camber Sands hosted by Fitness Fiesta.
If this weekend was 3 or 4 years ago we may have spoken maybe twice over the whole weekend and maybe a few text messages would have been exchanged, not nowadays.
The whole ‘Social Networking’ boom over resent years has changed how we communicate with each other in a big way.
This morning, this is how I communicated with my wife, we texted each other (the old fashion way). I was on Twitter with updates, my Twitter account feeds direct to my Facebook account. I posted photos on Twitter, those photos made it to Facebook. I was texting photos of the boys to my wife along with video text; thanks to the power of the brilliant iPhone.
My wife saw the Twitter / Facebook updates and commented on them (communicating back to me).
I walked the dog, another Twitter update (feeds to Facebook). Get home the boys do a small video to say ‘we miss you mummy, we love you mummy’, this video is texted to Tamzin. My wife then sends me a photo text showing a fitness class, I then take a photo of the boys playing ‘Star Wars’ on the Wii and text back to her.
OK, this isn’t the norm, Bryn and Evan passed a swimming test this morning and as a proud dad I wanted to share this with all my Twitter / Facebook friends. Plus Tamzin is away and it’s nice for the boys to keep in touch with their mum.
OK, it’s a bit sad, every 5 minutes I’m on my iPhone doing stuff. TweetDeck and the Facebook apps make the whole social networking stuff fairly easy out and about.
My point is how communicating with friends and the whole world has changed over the last few years. The power of ‘The Net’, mobile phones and Apps and social networking sites have made the world a smaller place.
Just think about it, before Facebook came around I had school friends from over twenty years ago and I would often have thoughts like ‘what happen to them?, I wonder where they are how?, would love to meet up again…’. Nowadays all those missing friends are my Facebook friends, amazing really!
Oh by the way, I forgot we also spoke on the phone this morning, with all this twittering, texting, blogging please don’t forget to talk!
