September 15, 2008 163 Comments

You Can Do Your Job Without Twitter

velocity Let’s not fool anyone. You can do your job without using Twitter. You can get through any number of days without blogging. You don’t need to consume podcasts to perform your daily duties. Everything on your desk and in your calendar and piled high on your task list doesn’t require the use of Facebook, Friendfeed, Myspace, to get the work done. You don’t need RSS, nor do you need to know the name of even one popular blog.

MILLIONS of people all over the world get by just fine without these tools. Every day. Pick the small town where you live, or even a decent sized city space, and ask a random assortment of people whether they do any of the above. (Starbucks’ denizens don’t count, because we all know most Internet startups live in Starbucks and Panera).

Unless you’ve engineered your role to be wholly dependent on these technologies, you could go about your business without them and live a full and productive life until death.

So why, then, and I’m asking YOU this question, do millions of us thrive in this environment? Why are we threading the social web? Why are we spending hours a day reaching out, building connections, cultivating relationships, producing and consuming media that only a sliver of the world is even noticing?

What makes this our passion?

I know my answers. What’s your take? Feel free to comment below, or if you want to blog a response, please do so and link back to this post so we can all track the conversation.

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  • http://www.twitter.com/adrigonzo Adrienne Gonzalez

    Beyond the obviously narcissistic angle (being able to be followed, asked for my opinion, and establishing a voice in my industry among the chatter), I think social media is especially important in my industry because I don’t really get a chance to be “involved” without it.

    I work in accounting education which means that a large chunk of my time is spent brushing up on industry trends (which expands to finance, management, and economics) – I can’t imagine how long it would take me to comb through blogs without my connects to feed me the information I need throughout the day (this is where Twitter comes in especially handy). I see what people are talking about and get an instant picture of what matters to the folks I’m trying to tailor my social media and marketing efforts towards. I’m not an accountant but through social media, I’m able to connect to the industry and am accepted as one of their own in a way that probably wouldn’t be too likely without the platform.

    Priceless.

  • http://www.twitter.com/adrigonzo Adrienne Gonzalez

    Beyond the obviously narcissistic angle (being able to be followed, asked for my opinion, and establishing a voice in my industry among the chatter), I think social media is especially important in my industry because I don’t really get a chance to be “involved” without it.

    I work in accounting education which means that a large chunk of my time is spent brushing up on industry trends (which expands to finance, management, and economics) – I can’t imagine how long it would take me to comb through blogs without my connects to feed me the information I need throughout the day (this is where Twitter comes in especially handy). I see what people are talking about and get an instant picture of what matters to the folks I’m trying to tailor my social media and marketing efforts towards. I’m not an accountant but through social media, I’m able to connect to the industry and am accepted as one of their own in a way that probably wouldn’t be too likely without the platform.

    Priceless.

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    We had lived once without the use of these sites of course we can still do the same

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    Now a days people uses facebook for social networking.This will be used for chatting and discuss about the product and so on… Thanks for sharing it with us….

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