• You will probably laugh, but I learned a lot about what it meant to have healthy and honest friendships from the TV show ‘Friends’.

    6 characters had less than 30 minutes to share an engaging storyline involving all of them equally. When an issue arose, which it often did, the friends had to communicate, sometimes with brutal honesty… without sabotaging their relationship.

    After spending too many years avoiding conflict at all costs, suddenly we were witnessing that Monica and Rachel could be at each other’s throats, (sometimes literally) and then be best friends again.

    No hard feelings. Wow. That level of honesty may seem like it could only work on TV, but they were onto something….

    I was enlightened, and intrigued.

    Twitter, the home of 140 characters or less, brings this communication style more into the mainstream. Communication 2.0.

    Our lives are sitcoms, we don’t have time for unnecessary chit chat. Twitter understands our fast paced lives, and allows us to decide who we want in our circle, woo them with our short tweets. Maybe become friends, or business partners. I have witnessed it all.

    It’s my kind of instant gratification, say it like it is, a little bit (lot) narcissistic, allowing us to be voyeurs into the lives of people who would never give you their real phone number (hint..like MINE).

    Just saying, if you have been missing me, you may find me there.

    Are you using Twitter? If so, for what purposes and what have you discovered? I am a bit surprised how it started off as a Marketing tool and now is touted as the next possible Facebook.

    Move fast people.

    And follow me

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