Social Media and its Mythical Creations.

Social Media and Its Mythical Creations

Social Media has tremendous good. Good that you can share among people whom you don't know and get the perspectives of several whom you cannot otherwise reach.

Whatever the world says, it has come for its Real existence. You can delay, but cannot escape. If you can recount the moments when PCs came as a writing instruments, you would know the critics are a minority that are addicted to no-change. In a world going global, and the world getting closer, social media is its very medium. And if you wait to learn its skills late, it will be as tough for you as it was to mail when most around you didnt know a better medium to correspond with you!

The fear would exist, but you can hoep to cope with that only if you be with it. No one will tutor or train you overnight. The secretaries and the stenographers are out of the wood. It is you directly interfaced with another: head on. 

Get a little closer and the fear would escape.

It is about setting your judgement paradigm in place; you may fall a few times, or falter  too, but you will learn quicker and sooner.

A few things that hit you straight off - you will be impressed, you may dislike, you will be lured and you may feel rejected or dejected. 

It is no time yet for you to build opinions. The people whom you may have known 20 years ago, would have undergone a change with experience and over time, those who were your buddies would too have now there own closer world without you, just as you have. Recognise that. 

A few may strike you deservingly, and a few may arouse your ignorance forever. You meet many such people at parties and get togethers. How so very often you are knocked off your own perceptions as you get to know them more or better. 

The lonelier one, tread with extreme caution: you may strike one whom died to meet or whom you dreaded. Stay cool and firm. Cut your loneliness as an initiator, give time to get over your loneliness, and you have a wonderful way to cross your challenge, so long you stay with your senses. 

It is a place where you will be impressed, get driven, even compelled, and, sometimes be tricked as well.

If you look close the virtual word has three inner segments: a universe that is wide open and unknown, smaller than that is one that connects a few knowns and many unknowns sharing a fraternity or a social connection, and at the closest level those whom you know well.

The first is safe so long as you stay distant from the individual or the person, and stick to the words and expressions as a point of view that you may choose to agree, disagree, or stay unaffected. 

The second group can take you on a virtual trip. As you may be attracted to knowing just that little more. If you fall for knowing the unknown person, the haste may better be checked. You know the person you know, but you would never know how well the person whom you don't know, is known to the person that you know. Trust the one you know, but allow to build the trust with whom you know just as a reference. The compulsion sometimes to say the good word may be borne out of several reasons, personal or professional. That is when the wise counts. Giving time for an opportunity to meet, get an insight or reviewing threads. 

Your third segment must take all your conscious considerations - the window is open 24x7 to say hello and lighten your mood, yet that still is a public domain, and therefore, all that is expressed or shared must begin from honoring another's rights of an individual. Oh, you have plenty of opportunities to poke a fun or joke either on a private chat or a video chat.

Cross-connections is the one worth an eye and a sight. It is dangerous at its shortest level, and can turn a killer on a high! An individual, whether in your closest circle or in the widest radar may always be cross- connected. May not have understood another well, may not have known the other well enough, or may not have met even, but sometimes they have crossed, sometimes they couldn't take the cross well, and sometimes that cross hurt.

If you fall in the cross-connection circuit, its best sighting is when you hear a growing word or a growing view or a growing opinion. Dump it right then. It is a campaign my dear! That needs none of your attention. If it is for a cause - dive in for the cause, not its campaigners. 

You can do without that - if you want to survive well on the social media. Refrain, resist, kill!  Delay your urge to know another.  If you have a reason to know the real or the truth, do that on your own, without riding on this smaller media, howsoever big it may represent.

Your existence on social media has just begun, and you have a long journey ahead. It will get closer to your life, your daily life and may become your world. Be the steady learner, not its leader just yet!