day 1323: Next Door

"He came into the very world he created, but the world didn’t recognize him"

Social media sites have begun to evolve as we knew they would.  After all of the large scale platforms, would come the sites where we hone down interests, commonality and ultimately, only capture and share the information that we want, with the closest people in our lives. Path is the perfect example of this.  The neighborhood site, NextDoor, also embodies these traits.  What I find fascinating about these types of services is that we will certainly see more and more of them beeing created with more and more specific sets of shared interests. I envision that before long Facebook feels more like the front page section of the newspaper and we will run over to other sites to go deep into what might be covered in the other sections.  Example; we don't look for jobs or business stuff on Facebook - we use LinkedIn and others for those efforts.  What will make these interest specific sites work will be how well we are allowed to know each other and how deftly they can find our commonalities without being in our face, or too obvious about it.

Have you ever been amazed that you find out something about someone else, that when you do, you find it in common with them?  Sometimes it is shocking that we never knew.  It's those moments that it feels like we are bonding and creating a relationship that will last forever.  If we can only get to that moment.  How many people in our workplaces do we know are believers and followers of Jesus?  There are many that we don't know because we haven't had that moment of sharing with each other. And who best to be the first to share than us?  One well placed word of our faith opens up the opportunity to create a bonding friendship and a strengthening of our faith by having other believers around us.  Can we find a moment this week to share this important part of us with others?

Reference: John 1:10 (New Living Translation)