Josh Shear
No, Twitter won’t cut down on your face time with people
I mentioned last week that I use Twitter more than other social media platforms. There's a reason.
Throughout this year, I've met a whole bunch of locals I never would have met. At our first Twitter social, I met and , and , who , , who , and , who does .
I then met , , and , and I met , who , really well. She led me to , who is awesome – and I finally managed to meet her yesterday.
And then I left dinner and met and .
I've also met , who asked me to speak to a bunch of journalists (alongside and ), and I met and while doing that.
Twitter has also introduced me to , who had me speak to , where I met , , and .
On Thursday, the local Twitter community will meet again, this time (at 5:30 p.m., if you'd like to join us) – I'm hoping to, at the very least meet and , and possibly . I'm also expecting I'll meet at some point in the not-too-distant future. Oh, and , too.
For those of you who are worried that spending too much time on a network like Twitter is going to cut down on your face-to-face time with people, you need to re-think that. Would I have met these folks if not for Twitter? Possibly. But it's a pretty simple tool that costs exactly nothing to expand both your social and professional networks. Seriously.
Catch me on or and let's chat if you want help getting started.