When Virtual and Real Worlds Collide
June 22nd, 2010 | Small Business | No Comments »Last night the real and virtual worlds kep colliding. How did it start? With a happy hour. Which is always a nice way for the evening to start. My good friend from my old workplace was in town. He was there for a conference and met with some of the attendees after the first day.
Here comes the first collision. I didn’t get a call from my friend that he was in town…instead he tweeted me the location. My wife and I showed up.
The second collision was that most of the happy hour attendees knew each other from social media. When I was asked how I was connected to the happy hour, my answer of being a former co-worker of the organizer seemed so antiquated.
I’m having a very nice time at the happy hour — talking technology, KikScore, other businesses (like BumperTunes.com). At the end, as I was leaving, I realized that I knew the Twitter handles of people instead of their actual names.
As we decide to go to dinner after the happy hour, we of course jump on our available smartphones and make a reservation on OpenTable. We go to dinner and my buddy proceeds to take pictures of the food and outline what his Yelp review i going to be of the establishment.
At the end of the night, we said goodbye and then my friend thanked us on Facebook and Twitter.
