Skip to content


Keep up with your social network as the crunch comes

Everyone needs friends and contacts

While we find our way through the next year or two, there are going to be many changes. Orders get cancelled, expenditure is cut, and jobs will go.

If your circumstances change

Change brings opportunity, so accept it is inevitable, and look forward to what it will bring.

Your network is key to finding opportunities, so keep up with your network.

If you stay as you are

You’ll be fortunate, and unusual, but your friends and contacts will need you.

You may be key to them finding opportunity, so keep up with your network.

Change brings uncertainty

In the midst of change, people look for stability. Your tweet, blog post, IM or phone call might be the touch of normality people look for. Don’t stop being a social creature. Keep up with your network.

I was so tempted to have as the previous paragraph:

“Uncertainty brings doubt.
Doubt brings fear
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate . Hate leads to suffering.”

but I thought leading with Yoda

might be a bit much.

Image Credits: Litandmore &
bbaltimore

add to del.icio.usDigg itStumble It!Add to Blinkslistadd to furladd to ma.gnoliaadd to simpyseed the vineTailRank

Posted in Social Media, social networking.

  • http://steveellwood.com/2008/10/08/social-networking-fixed-my-heating/ Social Networking fixed my heating! « Is this Future Shock?

    [...] in Social Media, social networking « The URI is the Thing (TUITT) Keep up with your social network as the crunch comes [...]

  • phynbarr

    Sometimes all you want to do is crawl away.

    So maybe we need to be proactive for those we haven’t heard from for a while

  • http://kerrybuckley.org Kerry Buckley

    All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was… what he was doing.

    Sorry, couldn’t resist.

  • http://eastman1.blogspot.com DE

    WAR IS PEACE
    FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
    IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

    Oh, sorry, Been in the office too long.

  • http://steveellwood.com/2008/10/29/even-demos-says-allow-facebook-at-work/ Even Demos says allow Facebook at work « Is this Future Shock?

    [...] build will help us get through the recession; if not, at least it will give their people some more human contact and stability in difficult times. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Facebook To Allow Embedding [...]

  • http://steveellwood.com/2009/05/17/things-in-transition/ Things in transition « Is this Future Shock?

    [...] in October, I was reminding people to keep up with their social networks as the recession brought [...]