I've been asking myself a lot lately about how I can manage both my social media life and my social real life. Sometimes it's quite hard going out on a weekend, just quitting with all my accounts for 24 hours. Those precious hours would bring me close to my friends, family, and oops! Hey! I'm foreigner. I was born and raised in Brazil. I can't talk that easy with my family or friends. But once the weekend is getting close, the thing I think most is: that's the moment to establish contact with the south land. Because of social media I can get in touch with lots of people at once and get to know almost everything that is going on, even though I'm miles and miles away. Isn't skype such a wonderful tool?
And talking about the USA, no, I'm not lonely. I have great friends. I met wonderful people. And once more because of social media I got to know most of them and I can reach all of them faster specially during the week. It's also before the weekend comes that we can set up things to do and based on we are discussing, find alternatives and other stuff to do.
It was also because of social media that I, a foreigner, could keep track of almost everybody I met over here. All those people will be one day just a memory for me, but we will be able to see shared pictures, videos, (email) addresses and many other kind of information that will keep me in touch with them.
Yeah, it may be a really simple and ordinary explanation of how social media can change your life, but It's also a way of showing that it works much more than a place for cheap chatting. I'm not preaching for the end of real communication, the real conversation, where you shake hands and hug to say goodbye. But we need to give social media a chance and say that it is an important thing in our lives nowadays.
And just to finish, isn't that amazing when you come from an unplugged weekend with your friends and check your cluttered inbox with 50, 100 or 150 unread emails? I know, It's the feeling of not being left out.
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Just an observation: all this came up when I read an AdAge article. Really well executed, but, I just think that there's no easy way for us to get rid of all this!
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 12:22PM 
For those with iPhone4's, it can be difficult to take advantage of all the new add-ons. Facetime, one of my favorites, is especially difficult to use because to talk, both parties have to be connected via WIFI. Without knowing a contacts connectivity, it is difficult to connect them through Facetime.
