What’s my age again?

My Linkedin profile is connected to my website I’ve got multiple phone numbers, and multiple URL’s, and I’ve got blogs, with widgets, one widget even checks for tweets on twitter, and I ask myself not only What’s my age again?, but…  what language am I speaking? We’ve got Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Flickr, Meetup, Bebo, and Xing, to name a few.  Look up social networking sites on Wikipedia and there will be more than a hundred different names.

Social networking is changing the way people communicate, it’s changing the way we do business. Skittles became the hot topic for a week because they turned their website into a Twitter page, I don’t know what that means, but if the world does a double-take it must mean something.

I grew up as part of the generation that watched the technologically miraculous become commonplace. We played Pong, and Centipede, we knew what B.A.S.I.C. programming was.  We may be the last generation that actually used a phone with a dial on it. We can remember the first portable phone, the first portable computer, and the first portable tv, none of which gave any indication that they would lead to today’s Ipods, Iphones, and Blackberry’s.