In a world quite literally run by social media, the likelihood of getting from point A to point B without someone in your nearby vicinity or yourself contemplating their next Facebook post is highly unlikely.
If not entirely improbable?
With a fast growing technological industry in a fast paced world, the ramifications of not partaking in what is a staggeringly rapid speed of online revolution and growth can be detrimental to any industry endeavor. Not being “wired” immediately disservices you, your industry, your products public persona, and or your business in today's fast paced and increasingly technological world. Those who are connected will be submerged in “the know” with a simple click--or two--of a mouse button. Today all it takes is that simple click of a mouse on a graphical user interface to access hundreds or thousands of viewers and informants.
If not entirely improbable?
With a fast growing technological industry in a fast paced world, the ramifications of not partaking in what is a staggeringly rapid speed of online revolution and growth can be detrimental to any industry endeavor. Not being “wired” immediately disservices you, your industry, your products public persona, and or your business in today's fast paced and increasingly technological world. Those who are connected will be submerged in “the know” with a simple click--or two--of a mouse button. Today all it takes is that simple click of a mouse on a graphical user interface to access hundreds or thousands of viewers and informants.
Previously, my experience with social media outlets has been three-fold; four if you count a slight and remarkably brief tryst with a site as an actual affair. I utilized both BlogSpot and Facebook regularly, forgoing the celebrity and multimedia conglomerate-smothered and hashtagged twitter in exchange for the networking sleight of Google plus up until recently. For the most part, my blog posts have fallen by the wayside; save for the occasional rant on hedonistic societies for what is primarily one of my less productive activities I partake in for what is mostly my own entertainment. My use of Google plus to tap into the writing community has quite naturally declined alongside. Luckily, for my own benefit’s sake, I have gradually outgrown my distaste towards Facebook, "Exploit Your Personal Data Incorporated", embracing all of what can be be called nothing less than fantastic perks of being socially connected in today's world.
Speaking of matters of taste; the figuratively pungent “firstworldproblems”—alongside other hashtags—were not ones I found palatable before engaging in an industry specific foray of the twitter website. Yet, there is evidently value in organizations using twitter that I had not previously noted, or to be characteristically introspective, legitimately cared enough to put time and effort into discovering with my highly prized internet time.
From the links on presidential candidate’s standpoints on key current agricultural issues via Market to Market, to Bruce MacPheron’s frequent updates on agriculturally based student and faculty engagements, my interest was piqued when I realized the “tweet” held more significance than the utter simple inanity “too many donuts #socialsuicide#” or like: “LET’S TAILGATE NATTY HARD #freneticfireandbrimstone #buckeyebrobeast”. And while my slightly skeptical nature may be honed to a sometimes uncomfortably sharp critical degree, I thought the line of demarcation between what was legitimately valuable information was clear; and most posts stood on the more articulate and beneficial side of the partition. Between the effective and incisive posts linking to equally admirable articles from the Department of Agriculture to Bruce MacPheron’s university conscientious updates, the purely effectual use of twitter was enlightening. What may have been a previously critical outlook on what appeared to be the more trite of social sites has suddenly been drastically changed and dramatically accepted with a squeal of delight and personal welcome.
From the links on presidential candidate’s standpoints on key current agricultural issues via Market to Market, to Bruce MacPheron’s frequent updates on agriculturally based student and faculty engagements, my interest was piqued when I realized the “tweet” held more significance than the utter simple inanity “too many donuts #socialsuicide#” or like: “LET’S TAILGATE NATTY HARD #freneticfireandbrimstone #buckeyebrobeast”. And while my slightly skeptical nature may be honed to a sometimes uncomfortably sharp critical degree, I thought the line of demarcation between what was legitimately valuable information was clear; and most posts stood on the more articulate and beneficial side of the partition. Between the effective and incisive posts linking to equally admirable articles from the Department of Agriculture to Bruce MacPheron’s university conscientious updates, the purely effectual use of twitter was enlightening. What may have been a previously critical outlook on what appeared to be the more trite of social sites has suddenly been drastically changed and dramatically accepted with a squeal of delight and personal welcome.
My experience with blogs has left me split. The unadulterated detail and dense technological and technical industry specific information I stumbled upon while covering blogs, uncovered a wealth of information a mere Facebook page or twitter update alone couldn’t adequately convey to a recipient. Although the blog centering around confessions of a farmer’s wife recounting the terrifying swish of her husband’s Members Only-like warm-up pants; conjuring a vivid peek at what Miami Vice looked like many a decade ago in the now, often became more trivial then humorous with personal puritan conundrums like working on the Sabbath day. Which the truly shocking nature of is one I cannoooooot articulate or properly show...
Have at it, you.
Have at it, you.
Facebook was overall, as adequately effective as the twitter accounts I perused for a couple of days. My only complaint was the FFA, similar to twitter’s AgChat, tends to post links that are entirely irrelevant to agriculture as a whole. Specifically, I am referring to hallmark-like posts of inspirational quotes or pictures that seem utterly unrelated to agriculture. Although I know they may be considered a community group, there was just as much likelihood for an FFA post to be irrelevant to agriculture as to properly manipulate the effective tool of the internet meme to make important deadline announcements.
The agricultural industry is looking at inanities--with wonton disregard of value being provided or outcomes being measured—as ineffective means of communication from the more articulate side of the demarcation’s partition. It has clearly siphoned the vitality from the next generation’s fountain of youth--the now omnipresent social media--taking with it a means to keep agricultural awareness alive and astir.
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