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I have read countless articles that state in some manner: “Social Media friendships and contacts are not real relationships, contacts or friendships.”
BUNK. I call BUNK.
Yesterday I had the absolute honor of meeting the one and the only, @gritandglory. What a great person!
It is not the first time I have met someone I have talked to via Social Media and seriously doubt it will be the last. Just a year and a half ago I was saying the same thing about @churchpunk, who I now look at as my friend in Cincinnati.
What I find really cool is when the Twitter/Social Media Worlds collide. 6 degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon? No big whoop. Try 2 degrees of separation to just about anyone via Social Media.
The Twitterverse really is pretty small. Both @gritandglory and @churchpunk came into my weird little life via Twitter and connections with other people I follow and friends. Through random circumstances there was a reason to meet and thus the two worlds collide.
It is really odd to me but at the same time, wicked cool.
How amazing is it that someone you might have never in your lifetime had a chance of meeting can pop into your life because of a tweet?
So, my questions for the day.
Who have you met via Twitter, Blog or other Social Media that you now call friend? Who would you love to meet one day?
Go.
Totally agree with you! I’ve met loads of people I now call IRL friends, including Alece.
There’s plenty I’d like to meet still on the list too. Far too many to mention
There is my one degree of separation. Crazy to think, you know Alece….I had coffee with her yesterday. I am telling ya, crazy small world!
When I come to your neck of the woods we will have to grab one at the pub!
I think my most significant Twitter and Facebook interactions are with people I met first via blogging. Not all of my online relationships have turned into personal friendships, but some have, and I value those. I had the opportunity to meet a writing friend in person one day last summer when we both discovered we would be travelling to the same city. We arranged a rendezvous and chattered like old friends for hours, even though it was the first time we had met in person.
The online community provides a unique opportunity to encounter people we would otherwise never meet, and build up relationships with those we previously only knew superficially. It’s great!
The funny thing is that I know Alece from real life and you’re just meeting her now, after social media… and yet you and I have never met in real life, only social media. Its absolutely crazy! (and yes a very small world)