Social Networking Is Messing With My Head
Social networking is messing with my head!
At first, I used social networking tools for work. It was my world for recruiting and hiring and networking. Then, I started to bring in my family and friends to these networks and the awkward feelings of having these two worlds in one place left me conflicted. I got over it pretty fast and felt - THIS IS ME. This is who I am! I am a human resource executive, a social media junkie, a blogger, a mom, a wife. I should not (and am not) ashamed of who I am and what I do.... and yes, I am months away from turning forty (so you now all know my age!)
Jump ahead to the here and now: between Twitter and Facebook, I could literally be on-line all day. 24/7. Without a break. Add the blogs that I run, and I could just eat my meals behind the keyboard and type away. Then add in email and work responsibilities, and I am in severe overload. Seriously, at some point, email, social media tools, blogging, queuing up posts, editing, working... it just gets to be TOO MUCH. I can't even remember what life was like before all these tools!
Ah, but then you throw in the psychology factor (let's really mess with your head, Jill!), which I call: getting befriended by old, high school friends that you have not talked to in fifteen to twenty years on Facebook - and social networking takes on a whole new meaning.
THE BLAST FROM THE PAST ..... my past, pre-Silicon Valley, pre-California, pre-marriage, pre-kids life that I have not really thought about in a very, VERY long time.
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