Comments on: Our Future Colleagues have MySpace Accounts

By: marketing

marketing — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:05:43 +0000

Keep up good work. But i still need to read it twice before i give my opinion.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:01:49 +0000

“Train [our children] in the way [they] should go,
and when [they are] old [they] will not turn from it.”
Proverbs 22:6

I have 3 children now, 2 of them are almost teenagers. I believe the most important thing we can do is be intentional about training our children. This includes training in silence and concentration while they are young.

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Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:15:59 +0000

[...] to something he wriote but it got so long I figured I’d better put it here instead. Read Our Future Colleagues Have MySpace Accounts for the context [...]

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:24:45 +0000

Gints: Very true. I actually avoid taking morning meetings when I have concentration-type work to do (e.g. analysis, design, you know “thinking”). I have to turn off email and chat to stay focused. It’s a curse of the ever-connected workplace.

Derek: I r agreeing. Used to be a lot of jargon and the ever-present split infinitive, but decent grammar in documents. Now, you don’t know what you’ll get.

Thanks for reading and keep the comments coming.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:53:55 +0000

Completely agree Rich. I’m almost 31 and I’ve noticed the same thing. I do not have a MySpace account. In fact, I didn’t even visit the site until recently. While I realize it may be an exciting medium, I prefer REAL friends to do most of my communicating with.

Regarding Jake’s comment above, handwriting is a lost art as well as spelling. I read an article recently about how companies are receiving resumes full of IM lingo which is sad. It’s becoming almost normal to “speak” that way. Yikes!

By: Gints

Gints — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:55:16 +0000

Technology is advancing much faster than people emotionally and physically. And it causes many problems in social communication, physical health as well as sometimes problem solving. We need food and (at least most of us) communication just like thousand years ago, we need time to go deep into a problem to solve it, but never ending e-mails, phone calls, flashing chat screens etc etc splits our attention. So adults become just like kids that cannot focus on a single problem for more than a few minutes.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:15:57 +0000

I like the bit about short attention span, placed stealthily in the Read More part. Good stuff.

It’s a very valid point. I took notes in college in spiral notebooks. I envied my friends with (chunky) Powerbooks because they didn’t have to go to the computer cluster to write papers. Now, what self-respecting parent would send a kid to college without a laptop and thumb drive?

To the point, have you seen the handwriting on kids? Apparently, writing legibly is a lost art. I may be that spoken word is the next casualty as we retreat into the “soothing green glow”.