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Engaging with People with the Right Tools (or No Tools at All)

I struggle with this.

A lot.

I’m a man of convenience. This is pretty much a bad thing for pretty much every reason. I also can “assume” that people have heard things or know things even though there’s no reason for them to be aware of those things.

Does that make sense? Perhaps this cartoon will explain:

How are you being more social in the “right” ways?  Are you using the right “tools?”

22 Responses to “Engaging with People with the Right Tools (or No Tools at All)”

  1. March 11, 2010 at #

    Umm yeah except change the woman and man in my case. Hubby wants nothing to do with social media, ha.

  2. Adam Shields
    March 11, 2010 at #

    This is exactly why @tamishields got on Twitter. She joined as my Christmas present a year ago. Once I tell someone something I often don’t remember who I told it to, and assume I told everyone. Whether it is on twitter or not. Gets bad when I tell my sister-in-law my schedule (I am the nanny for her daughters, so she does need to know) but forget to tell my wife.

    I am working on it.

    • March 13, 2010 at #

      More like it was a gift to HER. And us (maybe).

      peace | dewde

  3. March 11, 2010 at #

    Obviously her fault.

    • March 11, 2010 at #

      hahahahaha!

    • brett barner
      March 13, 2010 at #

      Wow, I laughed too hard at this. haha~!

  4. March 11, 2010 at #

    It’s that way with my wife and I, except it’s the other way around. I found out once we had house guests for 4 days from her Facebook status. What?

  5. March 11, 2010 at #

    I get in trouble all the time because I forget to tell my wife something and of course I say ” I tweeted about it earlier” … tell your wife whats up people..

    • March 11, 2010 at #

      yip, I went and told everyone when our child was due, blogged it, before checking with my wife who had not even told all the family of even her boss and colleagues. I got into trouble. But then again I am the kind of person who thinks about telling someone something, never gets around to it, and then it sits in my memory as if I had actually said it.

      • March 12, 2010 at #

        yep, guilty of a similar sin. Tweeted that we were pregnant before my wife had told everyone she wanted to. she got a bunch of congratualtory facebook messages but hadn’t told her friends yet. #fail

  6. March 11, 2010 at #

    ha ha ha, I gotta get my wife to comment on this ….

    • March 12, 2010 at #

      I think that’s the universal first reaction we’ve all had to this ;)

  7. March 11, 2010 at #

    I feel like this happens to me a lot. I tend to have a hard time transferring things that i have been talking on my blog about and twitter stream to those who do not read my blog or my twitter stream. Often times I just assume they are familiar or sometimes it is the opposite and they have been stalking me and I had no clue. Weird how that all works.

  8. David Knapp
    March 12, 2010 at #

    Okay this is not how it should work in a marriage. I talk my wife’s ear off and in person. I expect other people to read my facebook updates if they want to get to know me. :)

  9. March 12, 2010 at #

    I am so BUSTED!

    I’ve told my wife- more than once- that yes we had talked about it, I tweeted it.

    Crap.

    I’m going to get AmieShoe to comment here. She’ll love it.

  10. Amie Shoemaker
    March 12, 2010 at #

    OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS MY HUSBAND!!!!! I didn’t know he was so well known that they made a comic strip about him…ha ha… But luckily he has a very teachable spirit when God chooses to show him things, so thanks Jon :) Love you Nick ;)

    • March 12, 2010 at #

      Bahahahahaha.

      I mean, sorry about Nick. I blame the internet.

    • March 13, 2010 at #

      Whatever Danny. I say blame Nick! Visiting spouses are /always/ right.
      :-)

      peace | dewde

      • March 13, 2010 at #

        I agree. Visiting spouses are ALWAYS right. :)

    • March 13, 2010 at #

      pwnd indeed!

  11. March 12, 2010 at #

    Whew! Choosing the “right” outlets is daunting.

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