Microsoft Director of Social Innovation Mark Drapeau discusses the importance of ‘real’ relationships in social media and asks government, ‘Are you being social in real life?’
Are you being social in real life?
By Mark Drapeau
Microsoft Director of Social Innovation Mark Drapeau discusses the importance of ‘real’ relationships in social media and asks government, ‘Are you being social in real life?’
Thanks for bringing this distinction between mere conversations and relationships. Good point! I also wonder is there is a continuum of human relationships where interchange of short bursts of text are on the low side (not the lowest point though) of the human-interaction spectrum and real intimate relationships are on the high side. This does not mean that the continuum is a linear line- it could be or it is a multi-dimensional space. Of course, humans can interact not just with humans but also with organizations or with objects (e.g., with a music player or a phone), but the strongest ties are normally between humans (as you point out relationships are better than mere conversations on social media).