Yesterday I sat in the plane with an older couple next to me, somewhere in their fifties. Ok, some of you might say, that’s not old. I’m 31 so that’s old to me. Strange thing was, I was the one feeling the senior here…
As soon as the couple sat down in their seats they got hold of their notebooks and kept on jamming the keys until take-off finally caught up with them. Totally in control, they saved their file, shut down the notebook and put it in the sack in front of them. But then… they forgot to send something to their grandchilderen! Pops pulled out his Blackberry, jotted a message, took a pic and sent it out before the plane left.
My response? I grabbed my book. Ouch.
The good part here I was reading Gary Vaynerchuck’s ‘Crush It’ telling me all about social media and how to catch up with all these people. That’s why I’m diggin’ it now on Tumblr and Twitter right now and I must say it’s pretty addictive. No Facebook for me though, kind of cursing in The Netherlands as we’re the only people on this planet which are Western and don’t use Facebook (we have Hyves actually).
The social virus is catching up with me and changing my life each day for a bit. In the end I might end up like a techy, but hey what the **** I own a software company so that’s not too bad. Finally makes me understand all those programmers!
So my response next time in the plane?
Grab my e-book, download the newest book online before take-off and smile to the people next to me. That must be awesome to do.
