The other night I was
out with Bernie and one of his neighbours, a man who works in the correctional
system. Bernie has his own business to run. His neighbour had a co-worker in
crisis. I had just come from work myself. We had a great time and some good,
solid conversation, but in the course of a three hour dinner, every one of our
cell phones was active between five and twenty times.
You have probably had similar
experiences.
A new initiative in my
department at work is migrating 90% of company communications to an intranet
social media site patterned after Facebook. We are being discouraged from using
email and encouraged to access the forum regularly from our phones when not on
the job in order to keep abreast of developments and “share information more
effectively”.