Does your inbox tell you every time someone on myspace wants to be your friend? Mine does. For the most part I like these little notes. It makes me feel connected with the world. Sometimes though I look at the name and wonder “who in the world?”
This got me thinking recently…like deep thinking. Scary, I know. I’m “friends” with a couple hundred folks…but how many of them do I really know? How many of them have I met in real life? How many of them have I carried on a conversation with? How many of them have I even said “Hi” to?
In this world of interconnectivity and dozens of ways to stay in touch and “get connected” it seems that I (along with billions of others) have lost a connection with those that I do consider my friends. And there are ample opportunities to make new honest to goodness friends…and I let them slip through my fingers.
This depresses me.
And makes me think of the wonderful people I have met both online and offline who make this solitary profession a little less lonely.
I’d like to introduce you to a few. In fact, I’ll introduce you to one each Friday for as long as I can, with a little story of how I know them and why I think they’re special. Hopefully you’ll enjoy these introductions to my friends and perhaps one day you’ll too be able to call them your friend…and really mean it.
So come back next week for an introduction to Denise Meyers.
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