Connectitude (or: Linkativity)

So I've officially signed up for the Google+.  Come and find me. 

I did it because we are looking to find ways to communicate with the boss once she moves off to her new job.  There's apparently a feature where you can "hang out" and video chat with more than one person at a time, which will probably be useful somehow in having multiple people chatting at the same time.  The only problem I see with it so far is that my computer just isn't that great, so it crashed the last time I tried it.  I think I can solve that with a cooling pad and turning up the performance settings on my computer, but that's neither here nor there right now.

The point I'm getting to is the fact that I now have all of the important social medias, meaning that I'm highly connected to the internet world.  I'm not sure how I feel about it.  It's equal parts good and bad - you have a strong connection to a number of folks and can communicate ideas and cat videos across great distances, discuss running form and chemical synthesis, etc., but there's a great incentive to then make interpersonal interactions less important. 

One of my friends in Minnesota was telling me about how the people he interviews for jobs are terrible at interviewing because they never have the need to interact with people in a professional capacity face-to-face. They just don't know how to talk to people anymore!  In a world where you don't need to present yourself in person, it appears to be more difficult to develop those necessary skills for being a dynamic speaker who can actually talk to the person in front of them.  I myself have that problem anyway, and I'm sure the increased usage of social medias and electronic communication have chipped away on any interpersonal skills I managed to develop in the past. 

Despite my connectitude, I'm going to try to avoid using it too frequently, especially with regard to personal interactions that I could be having with people who are nearby.  I can understand how important it is to be clear and straightforward with people on internet, but I'd rather do it in person.