Why do I seem to be so against all these new social media tools? Well, one clarification must be made: I am not against them, but I do question them. Sure, they are quicker and vast-reaching. They also overextend our human capacity to communicate. So much to hear, see, read, do, listen to! We are already poor listeners and now our focus is even more strained.

Like you said in the post, we are bombarded by blogs that have no restraint as to what they say, how effectively they say it or if they say anything important or useful at all.

I am suspect of all these new social media tools because there are so many of them: they are spreading out our social skills until the layer is so thin, it can be poked through with a dried up piece of grass.

We can be spread too thin.

The meaning behind a text message is significantly less because one may send 10 texts in less than a minute. Old ways of doing things (like sending letters, going over to someone’s house and knocking on their door, even CALLING them on the phone) may not be as quick or efficient, but it certainly packs a lot more punch. Getting a letter is the best sense of connection to someone in this internet-savvy social world we’re entrenched in.

And call me grandma, but I can’t stand when you are speaking to someone and you are second to their blackberry. Some call it multi-tasking, I call it rude.

We need to sit at The Cup and have these arguments in person soon, please.