I know some people looking for jobs. Jobs that value people with good public communication skills and people with solid networks. I saw a married couple post on their Facebook status that they were starting the process of adopting a foreign child and were looking to raise money.

The people in both of these situations need a strong social media network to better accomplish their goals.

None of them have such a network.

I’ll add that I hate when people just game social media for personal gain, but this is not some fad, you need to get in the game.

Worry about ‘getting it’ later.

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I had churchie opportunities all day on Sunday at South By Southwest so I couldn’t make it to Valerie Casey’s keynote and I’m bummed I missed it. Here’s the highlights..bare in mind the audience she’s addressing are the people that make the internet and social media what what they are.

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I think they day is fast approaching where we won’t be that impressed by this kind of data…and that’s the day where the web truly becomes a part of the fabric of life.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

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Have you ever been choked up by a book? Maybe even shed a tear? Get mad? Laugh?

Of course you have. The fact is that emotion can be transmitted through written word.

I have been involved in a lot of conversations about whether or not ‘true community’ can exist on the internet and the fall-back argument of opponents of the idea is that feelings just don’t transmit in the context of the web. We can’t truly know how someone may be feeling in a given context.

Remember when you first started commenting on blogs or posting on social profiles? There was a learning curve for all of us to understand context, emotion, voice and all the other little nuances that go with being an internet citizen that wants to hear and be heard. I think a seasoned internet citizen can pick up on the things we think we’re missing because of the lack of physical presence.

Am  I way off? Can we read feeling and emotion on the web?

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I have become a fan of the location based app trend that is just beginning to gain some traction and is well on its way from being in the early adopter stage to mainstream. Go see Brent for a breakdown of a few.

Since there is some sort of competitive element that goes with them and more and more businesses that are rewarding users, I think it’s time we started a discussion about ethics.

Here are my proposals:

Don’t check in where you live
It never occurred to me to check in at home, but then I saw some people doing it. I don’t have a particular reason why you shouldn’t, other than the fact it’s dumb.

Don’t check in where you work
As businesses begin to offer rewards to the ‘leading’ users, it only makes sense. How can a restaurant offer a discount or special offer when the leading user on a given app is a waiter at the restaurant?

Connect with people in real life
Connect with the people who frequent the same spots as you, that’s the point of the whole thing isn’t it?

What other points need to be considered?

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