I was talking to a friend the other day and was telling him about my weekend at Podcamp Boulder. His second question was, what the hell is social media? This question was harder to answer than I than I thought it would be. It’s a social communication format. Huh?! Was George’s answer, seems like an oxymoron. How can we really be social at our computers, sitting in a coffee shop on our laptops. George is a couple of years older than I am, he actively uses email and sms on his Blackjack. I just thought he would be up on the whole Facebook, MySpace thing. He had heard of them and he didn’t know “social media”. This is a new concept for a lot of people I guess. Perhaps those of us deeply entrenched in it just take it for granted that all the people around us are hip on the interwebs thing.

To think we are so social on computers. It used to be people would go out with friends to meet other friends. Is Facebook turning into the modern day water tower? Is such a bad thing. To keep your anonymity in the information age could be a daunting task, but I think some people are managing to pull that off. I guess it would be easier on some sites that others. I guess I in the information age this is going to get more and more difficult for people to pull off.

So far nobody on the street recognizes me from this little blog… =)