Break from social media over Christmas ...
I agree with Jocke's vision of the digital and physical reality is a reality that only takes two different forms. Social media is not a computer game, a virtual game that is decoupled from the physical reality, but simply a variety of digital communication channels.
For me, the discussion a mixture of etiquette in combination with a discussion of work-related stress.
Stress may be the turbo of the technology means that many can work everywhere and there are fewer and fewer "protected space" where you do not even need to explain why they were not inter / re / act. The cell phone will be a good working tool for most tasks, coverage with good speed are basically everywhere, mobile services for air is introduced continuously, which means that the person is unable to say stop having fewer opportunities to relax due to the forced stop.
I also think it's interesting communication etiquette and priorities.
- You sit on-one and talking and ringing. What are you doing? Do the direct (phone always goes first), do not respond (biased Never remove the physically), looks at the number and then determine who to prioritize.
- You sit in a meeting and it rings. What are you doing? It can not happen - the phone is switched off at the meeting, you have it on silent, depending on who it is, go from the room and takes the call, you answer and talk far and wide in space [1]
- You sit in the cinema and it rings. What are you doing? It can not happen - you have the phone turned off to the movies, you have it on silent, depending on who it is, go from the room and takes the call, you answer and talk extensively in theater
Then replace the one phone call to email, twitter, facebook status update, and what those might be. When is it OK to give priority to people at a distance in front of those who endeavored to meet you face to face? When is it disrespectful, unpleasant and ouppfostrat to choose the absent rather than present? Note: it currently is rarely part of the conversation with the absent but the case of a pure off prioritization in the normal case.
So the question is what you want, is the concern for twittraren for him not to burn out or is it an annoyance than a totally cool to be socially out priority of the man endeavored to meet face to face? The arguments for the two scenarios are quite different and it gets pretty messy if you can not keep them apart.
[1] There are cultural differences here. I get myself COMPLETELY BONKERS on Italians who - in my eyes totally disrespectful - in language happily responds and babbles on, thereby sabotaging the physical meeting they participate in. Not just prioritize them off meeting they participate in - they also make it impossible for this meeting the others.










































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