7 Issues Social media Will Not Solve:
1. Your reticence to join the conversation.
2. Your scarcity-based fear that if you contribute to the conversation, something bigger and better will steal it away.
3. The real need for you to occasionally put one foot in front of the other, and step outside in the real world to see how utterly amazing and unique people can be.
4. Your insecurity about whether or not your thoughts matter. (Tip: They do.)
5. Your fears of being too old to learn new tricks and too old to keep up with the young folks. (Tip: You’re never too old to learn new things and the young folks will make the world a better place the more they learn how to use social media for good. And there is a place for everyone on the Web – check out sites like TeeBeeDee.com or BoomerCafe – you’ll find your crowd too.)
6. Your need for instant gratification. (It’s a marathon on the Web 2.0 track, not a sprint.)
7. Your insomnia unless you find fellow insomniacs on Twitter (which make the sleepless nights go by faster.)
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Love your article. We started a company to help people learn and implement new tricks and it has been an interesting journey. There are those who believe it will do everything and won’t go out and talk to people the old fashion way ( which you can’t do without) and there are those (even in the ad, design, campaign industries) who are clinging to old tried and true ways that are totally insufficient to compete in today’s market. Thanks for writing this!