Although they’ve only been around for about five years, social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn have become life changers. People that you, in the past, might’ve lost contact with forever are suddenly in your news feed everyday talking about their kids and careers, posting pictures and sending you quizzes.
Ask yourself how your life would be different now if you had Facebook 20 years ago. What if you friended every person you met along the way? Would you have made different life decisions? Would you have gone to a different college, moved to another country or even married somebody else?
Or maybe nothing would’ve changed. After all, even with Facebook you have to work on friendships and relationships to keep them alive. You can’t just send a buddy a gift in Mafia Wars and expect to be the best man at his wedding. At some point, you have to pick up the phone.
What do you think – would this be a butterfly effect that alters the course of history or am I over-analyzing things again?
