Political Figures Join the Social Network Evolution

This is a changing world that we live in. That’s a statement my father often made and an occurrence that both he and my grandfather viewed with apprehension. In my grandfather’s early years, news was carried through word of mouth. One neighbor shared all the latest with the family or the farmers gathered at the county grainery to discuss the latest farming techniques. Families socialized at church and at home around the fireplace or the dinner table.

Today, socialization has evolved into an impersonal fast paced technical exchange of digital imagery sent out on invisible radio waves or satellite images. The human hand is involved to a limited degree in operating the keyboard or pressing a few buttons to make the computer work or turn on the satellite TV.

At the helm of this digitized social networking revolution stand government leaders from around the world. Have you ever wondered what George Washington would have thought of a President delivering a speech to the nation by way of video on a computer monitor?

Abraham Lincoln loved professional theatre. Imagine old Abe tweeting on Twitter or renting a Video from one of those machines at the grocery store? Its an awkward vision. Yet here we stand at the gateway to the fastest evolving technological revolution in all of mankind’s collective memory.

It’s a daunting revelation to see how anti social people have become, all the way into the severance of family core values and quality time. In an attempt to provide socialization many internet companies have developed social sites with intricate softwares that deliver in nano seconds.

For Grandpap, it was a ten mile walk to the nearest post office where he could mail a letter that might arrive three weeks later. His soonest response was approximately six weeks, if the recipient decided to answer the letter in a timely fashion.

Today’s President won an election by blogging the campaign and by utilizing the vast reach of facebook and Twitter.

We live in a space age indeed where our interactions depend upon electronic circuitry and invisible airborn waves. At least connecting on twitter allows the internet generation to get wired with someone on the receiving end in split seconds. So there is communication.

I think I’ll walk to my daughter’s home in the morning to sit down and share some face to face time. I’ll leave the social networking revolution in the hands of my nation’s leaders for a few hours. They seem to have a great handle on it.

The Midnight Writer