Living in a Facebook world

WOW! It has been way too long since I have been able to post anything! Life has been SO busy lately! But do you know what I do indeed of course find the time for? Facebook (and Twitter too of course). My work revolves around social media (Facebook and Twitter), and so does my life. I have an iPhone with both Facebook and Twitter always in the palm of my hand. I am a social media fanatic, and my family, fiance and all of my friends know that about me. One of my favorite things about Twitter especially is that I can write whatever I want, when I want to. I am one of those people that has a lot of random thoughts constantly running through my mind, and quite honestly, I want to express them. What better way than by writing a quick Twitter update!? I LOVE to write and wish so badly that I had more time to do it (ie. I haven't had time to write a full blog post apparently since September), but something such as Twitter still gives me the option to do just that in the limited amount of time that I have literally in the palm of my hand. What more could I ask for!? I'm sure so many of you saw Social Network the weekend it came out last month. I know I had been counting down the days to see it. It bewilders me to think that we really and truly are living in a world of Facebook and social media, but I'll be honest, I love every bit of it. This is a viral economy. It can certainly be dangerous at times if not handled in the proper manner, but if it's all used the right way, it can be AWESOME in so many ways! My title at work is Marketing Communications Coordinator. I do the social media. How crazy is it that we know have jobs everywhere consisting of Facebooking, tweeting and blogging all day? Facebook is powerful. I oftentimes wonder what our lives would be like today if we didn't have Facebook to turn to when we're bored, when we want to tell all of our 'friends' "what's on our minds", when we want to promote things, when we want to buy and sell things, when we want to show off pictures of what a fun weekend we had, when we want to promote our business or our product? What would we be doing? I try to think back on when I was in high school and Facebook had just become a new phenomenon, yet still not one big enough for all of us to catch on to, but boy did we ever catch on quickly. Instead of saying "call me" today...we tell people to "Facebook" us. Someone created this website (we all know the story), and it turned into a means of living for many (let's be honest...all) of us today. Tonight, I got a FB friend request from someone whom I have not talked to in several years...took me a while to actually realize who it was. I turned to Facebook where I was going to search the name...not realizing that I was already looking at my friend request. My point is...I don't even turn to Google or anything else, I automatically revert everything back to Facebook. It's a common search engine today. It's crazy! If you ever want to know what's going on...just check the newsfeed and you're quick to figure it out. Society and the way it's run change so quickly from time to time, but who knew this is what it would someday be like? The definition of all of us would be simply put by a profile page with photos and a 'wall.' I think it's awesome. I wouldn't have it any other way because there is so much potential in every aspect of it. I'm anxious to see how much further it can even possibly get. Because I'm sure there's more. There always is. There are still many out there who have not jumped on the social media band wagon, and that's fine, but when your own grandparents and aunts and uncles are your Facebook friends, you know it's something that truly everybody is a part of. I know that I would not have been able to stay in contact with nearly as many people as I do today if it weren't for Facebook. It makes things that much easier and more convenient for us all. Some say it's a bad thing, but more find the positives in it, and I'm definitely one of those. Now I need to get back to checking FB and Twitter before I put an end to this night : )