Compulsory is not on the list
The key idea is control of me, by me, for me!
Do you prefer to drive an “automatic” or a “stickshift”? To be honest, I have never driven an automatic. When I drive, I like to have a relationship with the vehicle. But if I sat in tail-backs everyday, I might change my mind. I would change my mind.
None of us want our lives to be “dumbed-down”. We get pretty irritable when that happens. Think of the retired school teacher who writes wonderful letters by hand.
But she probably also types letters to bureaucrats on a computer and prints them out. She’s a smart gal after all.
Social media needs to give us control, not take it away
Horses for courses, cars for different driving conditions, writing utensils for different purposes. Technology makes us happy when it improves our ability to get things done.
If we start taking control away from people, they will get unhappy with us, or best work round us.
Colin Walker has a great post telling how his mother-in-law uses the internet for some tasks, and not for others. She understand without studying psychology & computer science, what a computer will do more smoothly, and what a human does better : repetition vs discretion.
The five C’s
Colin also lists five ways social media can augment and make IT more useful to us:
- the opportunity to contribute - easy sharing of information
- the opportunity to comment - your chance to have your say
- the opportunity to collaborate - work with anyone, anywhere to achieve a common goal
- the opportunity of conversation - getting involved in discussions with others
- the opportunity of community - building relationships online
Please note : compulsory is not on this list!
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