There has been conversation over the past few years about the increased communication online and whether or not it decreases communication offline.

Email and texting decreased offline interaction both via phone and face-to-face conversations. In my professional life and personal life I chose to write it rather than say it. The benefit is that we write better today as a result. We are more thoughtful about what we say and how we say it, because most of us by now have had a number of instances where our words were taken to have different meaning than intended.

Contrarily, social networking online has caused more networking offline. I am interacting with people more offline as a result of befriending them on Facebook or Twitter both via phone and in person. At home and every time I’ve traveled for business this year I'm connectign with people for lunch, coffee or after work that I hadn’t been in touch with for years.

Naturally people move in and out of our lives due to changes in career, geographic location, marriage, kids, passions. Social networking has reconnected me with people who had fallen off the radar.

Technology is bringing us together, I wouldn’t have predicted it, but I love it! A shout out to all of you I’ve connected or reconnected with via social networking.