How much time do you spend talking with strangers?
Social media is one of several options for communicating with other people. In an informal survey around the office, I was asking people how much time they spent talking with people they don’t know on the phone. I also asked how much time they spent on social media talking with people they don’t know. I don’t want to taint results, so I’ll just ask all of you the same question.
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7 Comments
2009-10-08
12:01:41
I do tech support and social media and I don't have a lot of real life friends so I might skew the results... haha
2009-10-08
13:02:31
Sabrina, you are totally going to skew my results!! ;)
Perhaps I should have made an option for people to share their profession...
2009-10-08
14:39:45
Between /. , Stackoverflow, and comments everywhere else (like here) I'm at least 50% talking or reading people I don't already know.
2009-10-08
15:00:48
Trenton, I'm with you. I only recently considered Facebook to stay in touch with my real life friends. I've been surprised how many social media users do not talk with strangers though. Wonder if that's a matter of time and eventually they will, or if we are the exceptions to the rule?
2009-10-13
00:04:11
I used to talk to strangers WAY more before Twitter changed the @Replies protocol. It's not as easy to discover new people now. You have to go looking. But I think my percentage is still rather high. :-)
@CarriBugbee
2009-10-13
06:30:13
Carri, I dislike the change in the @replies as well. I wish we were working on a standard for micromessaging to make more room for innovation and preferences...
2009-10-21
15:21:43
Wait, what do 'know" and "strangers" mean anymore? Do you mean, talking to people you've never interacted before in any medium?