I call the world we are living in TGIF. Anyone know what TGIF stands for? That’s right: “Thank God It’s Friday”
But I’ve re-acronymed TGIF as “Twitter, Google, iPhone, Facebook.” So let me begin this morning with some TGIF questions:
Do you blog? If you do, do you blog with people on your block?
Are any of your immediate neighbors your Facebook “friends” or Twitter “followers?”
Do you connect with more people digitally than you do physically?
If the answer is “no” to the first two and “yes” to the third, then you are . . . pretty typical. The good news is that now absolutely no one need be cut off from contact with others in this electronic age of “relationships.” The bad news is that if everything in our lives is part of some enormous “social network,” how do we ever differentiate th…