Disconnectedness
The challenge with social media is your communities can become disconnected. Friends can seem to randomly come and go. This leads to frustration and blaming everything from the technology to your lack of time for keeping it all together.
To be productive in any endeavor, you have to have your "head in one place." Or if you have ever practiced yoga or meditation, you would say you need your mind and body connected. And there is a cure for that. If you have practiced meditation or yoga, then you are probably familiar with the term 'sutra.'
A sutra is a word or sound that links together aspects of the body and the mind. In fact, the word sutra really means stitch. It helps you acheive Yoga, which essentially means union – of the mind and body.
The Social Media Stitch
When you stitch together the energies of the mind and the body, everything works better. When you stitch your social communities together, it stands to reason they will function better as well. It may be more accurate to say you will function better. You are the keeper of your communities.
Twitter and Facebook both give us the capability to subdivide our friends into smaller groups. This does make everything more manageable. It's easier to focus on a smaller group. Nevertheless, those friends are all still associated together under the umbrella of your respective Facebook or Twitter community. So, there is cohesiveness among the subgroups. Yet, what about the gaps between your social networks.
Friends Fill The Gaps
Wouldn't it make sense to introduce your "Twitter Friends" to your "Facebook Friends?" This stitches together some of the inherent gaps. And doesn't a great deal happen in those gaps between communities. Aren't your best friends the ones that understand you at all levels – professionally, socially, and personally?
Gaps can drive a person insane. Your real friends fill the gaps between your communities, don't they? They add a sense of continuity to your life. It's interesting how much disconnectedness there can be on the social networks when everyone is working so hard at making connections.
If you want a greater connection, consider the gaps.
Then once in a while bring together friends that might not otherwise connect. It may surprise you.
Google calls it a Wave, I'm calling it a stitch that closes a gap. It's nothing more than an opportunity to bring people together to create new perspectives – and better collaboration and friendships.
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