clipped from: broadcasting-brain.com   

One of the greatest opportunities of social media is to interact with people both similar and different than ourselves who we might never otherwise meet. Technology becomes a common glue and a blank slate where we can interact with virtually anyone, whether they are:

  • junior to ourselves (but not inferior!)
  • equivalent in skill and knowledge
  • the type of expert or role model that we’d look up to.

    • This flattened playing field and the multiple access paths to attention share is an innovation that we sometimes don’t appreciate for what it is: the ability to punch above our weight.

    We all bring our own strengths, weaknesses, gifts and gaps to every situation that we enter. Social media gives us unprecedented opportunities to interact with virtually anyone. We should thoughtfully make the most of any opportunity for interaction with those people that we can learn from (which could be anyone, really).