As my social network clouds are slowly fading while I'm getting more and more engaged (slowly, as I said) with the f------- tool, Twitter, blogs, vlogs, and apps, what amazes me most is how much time you can spend with it (without actually intending to do so). It's like a technological haze (and maze) that envelops everyone who gets caught in it.
Not that there aren't many things that are great and make things much easier -and at no cost: skyping and lyncing with my family - my grandpa almost got the hiccups when I told him I was calling from the Philippines and ordered my grandma to swallow her sandwich more quickly, what's-apping with the Manila Tao team, facetiming and i-messaging with friends,tripadvisoring the next available hotel, dropboxing/onedriving/googledriving data back and forth, snipstitching my photos for this blog (will hopefully save time doing the formatting, this was quite a pain...) and can't remember what else I did today. All in one day, all in a haze...:-)
Other people, I just saw in a German newspaper, are spending their time by photographing food paintings (why didn't I have this idea?!) - see http://m.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-123984-7.html.
In any case, this sort of electronic haze is definitely not helpful if you want to solve the problems of millions of people who don't even have access to any kind of electricity. Where social media is leveraged to join forces and connect supply and demand, it actually helps a lot. On the other hand, what is actually causing stir and getting the attention of millions is whether dresses are gold/white (which they are) or blue/black...
Hopefully our social service day tomorrow will help us to "look up from your screen" (see https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS9Wte1gX9g), get in touch with and talk to people and get at least for a while, out of his haze....
And here my first snip stitches: