Are you being heard on Twitter, Facebook or MySpace

Doesn’t someone have to be listening for it to count as sharing, re: Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace

Yes I’m telling all on my postings in Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, but that “telling all” is sort of a one way catharsis. Who’s listening? And while we’re talking about social networks and sharing, let’s include “am I being heard” and “is anybody really listening”? Sure, posting the latest news in my life is great, but are those brief fifty words and cell-phone-snap-shot-pix really getting the content across of what I’m feeling, or even what that event was about, or even “what am I about”?

Socializing is getting together and connecting …in person!

“If a tree fell in the woods and no one was there to hear it, would it still make a noise?” I think, thanks to Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace I finally have an answer to that famous old question. The answer is “No!” I think I get it now, socializing is not science, it’s getting together and connecting. Woody Allen once said “Being there is 90% of life” and I finally connected the message to my life when I opened up my social scene to Do Tell the game. We get together, play together, share together, and connect together. And it’s fun, and at the same time “no big deal”.

I think updating everyone has to include everyone actually “getting what I am saying”. It’s hard to do that in a post on a public web site. I mean, just how much time are they spending thinking about what I just said? Maybe they just read someone elses post and that set a mood that is shading my update in a color that isn’t me.

Playing Do Tell sets a space to be heard and to listen

I need to set a place where I can communicate and be heard. I have found that setting up the Do Tell party and inviting some people over creates that place. No big deal, it just happens. Maybe it’s just the tradition of playing a game with other people usually means fun, or maybe it’s just because I am getting acknowledged for finding some time to host a Do Tell party, or maybe it’s just my friends loving the idea that we can get together and connect in the real world rather than the virtual world. I don’t know all the “how and whys” of Do Tell creating a space to connect and update, but it just happens and it’s fun.

A game board creates that place that says to everyone “Hey, how about we just play a fun game as friends and pass a little time together!”. Open it on the dining room table, lay it down on the living room floor or coffee table, take it on a get-away-vacation to play with whomever you meet. The special thing about the Do Tell playing board is that it sets the special space for you.

Simple rules, quick play, not a memory game, fun questions people can answer by just talking about their own lives. It just works. Play Do Tell and set-up a space where people can communicate and be heard …in person.