Be Social
By Andrew Miller in Reader
Posted in Social Media on January 29, 2009 at 11:50 pm
In 2001, I went to San Francisco to stay with a guy I met through the internet and had spoken to on the phone only once. Looking back on it now, it sounds a little crazy. I nearly got turned away at the border because I didn’t know his address – only that he was meeting me at the airport.
I could have become one of those stories you hear about in the news – scary thought. Instead, I spent a wonderful month in America, putting on a stone in weight, fiddling with computers, enjoying the sunshine and then driving to Seattle in a 1973 RV that was falling apart, to meet more people that I knew through the internet along the way.
Fast forward 8 years to a bar in SOHO, and I’m at a meet up for UK technology journalists and PR’s called “KNOT”, organised by Andrew Lim. Several hundred people turned up and he raised over £1000 for charity. The entire event was organised through Facebook and Twitter. Many people didn’t know each other. I met people that I’d only ever had conversations with over Twitter.
On the same note, online dating is no longer seen as a taboo – but rather just another social network where everyone has the same obvious motive. Relationships are formed and maintained entirely in text and people think nothing of it. The idea of meeting someone through the internet has almost become, dare I say, normal.
Twitter, Skype, Facebook - there really has never been a better time to be social in every medium. I wonder if I told people I was going to America to meet someone I met from the internet now, I’d get the looks I got in 2001? And would border control kick up such as fuss? I don’t think they’d care what I was doing as long as they had my finger prints 
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