#SMCSFBlogOff - Social network, social family

Sometimes we discover different ways to use a social network that we haven't imagined before.

A few months ago we lived a sad event in my family. Someone died and the best way we found to keep everybody informed about what was going on in time was through Facebook.

In a single place we could find everyone, post a news and all the concerned people would see/read. Publish the ceremony date and people would also see.
It was quite strange to be part of it.
It was interesting to be part of it.

We all leave part of our lives on Facebook. We left a sad family episode there. We exchanged news, little words, infos. We went through the event together we went through a social family event.
Using FB allowed my family to keep everyone posted, those who were in Brazil and those few, like me, who aren't.

Then we posted pictures. So to remeber the person who was gone. And we all shared the album.

Who passed away was my half brother.
We had met again a few months before after not having news from one another for more than 20 years. We are 5 half brothers and sisters. Lately w have been meeting 4 at once. We were planning to meet the five of us. We wil never do now.

I'm glad I met him on that occasion. Our parents didn't get along anymore but we are not them. I hope the other 4 brothers and sisters, one of which is me, will keep in touch. And won't be away of each other's sight for more than a couple of months.

Since them we got to be a social family: we don't live in the same city, event those ho live in Brazil, but we got used to say hi, show our faces through Facebook.
Thourhg Facebook we also found lost cousins who are living ar away from Rio.
To keep in touch with family is one good use for this app. And probably the only reason I still use it a lot.

#SMCSFBlogOff - Climbing to the stars

Or the heights of mind.

I take yôga classes, well, it isn't only yôga it is a method which comes from ancient yôga from 5.000 years ago first started by Shiva and developed and codified in the 20th century (I prefer decoded if this word exists) by a Master.
I feel better, I sleep better, have less back ache when I wake up in the morning.
And we got social. We do social yôga.

If you organize yourself with the teachers, if you practice a little bit in one of the clubs/schools, it is possible to take classes through Skype.
Last time we in Paris had a colleague practicing with us from Switzerland.

We are also social yôga because we exchange quite a lot through Facebook - mainly through this tool. But the teams of teachers from this method in many different countries also blog, as well as the Maître.
We organize meetings, we keep each other posted about novelties, contests and whatsoever through our private group on FB.
This media allow us to communicate with people that we normallly don't meet, like I go to classes certain days of the week, and almost never meet some people who only go the days I don't go.
We share websites, feelings, ideas.
It's another way to put this people together.

There's no special intention to create any kind of emulation or energy. It's just another tool to communicate. At the end we happen to exchange propably more than the initial intention of the group.

We are living in a social era. Some people say business is social, but sport is getting social, cooking is getting social, working is getting social.
From collaborative tools we are getting to a social level and we are really working together while socializing.

There are many tools, and many more will appear.
I'm trying to figure out which tool will replace Twitter within 4 years.
Any thoughts?

I'm a digital immigrant but not only

#SMCSFBlogOff  

I don't remember when I learned this expression but I've been talking about it a lot lately.
I spend my day - and sometimes part of the night - online. I work online. And from time to time I take a peek to my personal cell phone to check what's going on (mostly emails, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram).

I first started using computers when I got in France ages ago, last century, on the mid 90's. I din't have a personal computer but I loved to search for anything on the library's catalog because thé catalog was online. I felt then like a techie because I was an expert of book search at the BPI (Bibliothèque Publique d'Information at Centre Georges Pompidou). I'd explain to other people how to search for a book from once in a while.

Than came the time of the Internet. I met the Internet at an intership in 96 where I was at the organization committee of a multimedia festival for art and heritage. On the first edition we organized a show of museums websites. We built our catalog and during the professional conferences days there was a free access computer where people could go surf the websites.

After that I got my first private and personal email address in 97. I Knesset I was lost for thecnology when I met the meme of the epoc: you know you're an Internet addict when you get home and you check first your emails than you answering machine.

I worked at an office in 99 where having a professional email from the office was something special and meant power. I only had my direct line there and  I got Internet access like after 6 months I was working there but no professional email address.
People felt powerful, those who had the email address at work. but they didn't have at home and some where pissed of to know that I the little thingy that worked there had my own private email address.
Yup.

Now on Twitter we are talking about à new kind of people. It's not linked to à generation but to one's multiple lifes. You can read on people's profiles: I'm a worker / skateboarder / oncle / Tv show lover / cat feeder / grandmom's walker etc.

I'm going to go straight away update my Twitter profile: no more comma. Vivat the slashes!

Today, it's easier to "talk" to me by email than by phone. Well, it is also because I worked for a few years on the phone, first on a hotline for an Internet provider, than for an insurance/assistance company.
I have 2 blogs (I closed the 3rd one), a Facebook page, 3 twitter accounts (for different purposes, and they may go with a specific blog), I'm Pinterest, Instagram, Fancy, Foodreporter, Foursquare, just got to Path, LinkedIn, Viadeo, Xing, I have a G+ profile but I haven't managed yet to stick to it, I'm leaving my orkut page die, lost my Multiply page and some others that' I don't remember.

In other words I'm always online.

Then I think of my godson, who is 4 years old. He should be a digital native but his not. Or not yet.
His parents don't want to see him too early with a tablet. They don't have a smartphone they have a simple cell phone, you know, those phones of 5-6 years ago, with which you could only... call people and send SMS. They have a computer, one for both gown-ups.
I understand the parents. But I still think it is awkward. We should live with our time. He should live with his time.
Or not?