What 1 year can bring ...
Last night, I was Facebook chatting with an old flame ... wait I'm totally not teling the whole truth ... let me try this again. Last night, I was Facebook chatting with the guy I had birthday sex with last year. Way better! HAHA!! My birthday is in a month, and we had gotten to chatting because he's coming out to LA. Super cool dude ... he's a breathtakingly gorgeous Aussie who's also a search engine optimizer and we met last year on my actual birthday at Saddle Ranch. Yep, talk about an LA cliche ... that place is such a meat market.
Either way, found out he is coming to LA because he's going to be a daddy!! Literally ... like in a few months a baby is going to come out of this chick's legs and it's going to be his for the next 18 years. YAY! Totally kidding, but it just struck me as to how much 1 year can really bring, especially when its all being documented in social media.
We got to chatting, and I told him all about the site, he said he reads it and has actually told a lot of his friends about it ... total awesome sauce. But because I had been tweeting and checking in, I can remember that night incredibly well.
Dude, check out my FourSquare checkin the next morning when I got my Starbucks ...
Social media really just messes with your head. And I have yet to decide if this is a good or bad thing or not. The site was like, 35 days old at that point ... I remember in the car telling him all about using it as a portfolio for my client base, as I was incredibly frustrated with work. We were a far cry from any revolution at that point, or anything other than - let's just pray this gets me a fucking job that I can stand.
Good ideas are never really "good" ideas until someone tells you that they are. I firmly believe that. I still wonder every.single.day. if I am insane. And why aren't other people understanding what I am seeing. It's just your responsibility to believe, and have faith. I just wanted to start this thing off to see if I could get some clients that I could stand. That's it. I loved lifecasting, but no one was doing it ... had it not been for you all, and the analytics, I kid you not - I would have given up a long time ago. None of this makes sense to me, even now. We've had offers to buy us based on just the general concept and name from the third week of the launch. The problem was, I had no effin clue what I wanted it to be. I just knew I didn't want anyone taking it over and messing up the potential of the project. If I could go back and talk to the Jen of December 8, 2009, and told her that she would have lived off of $10 for an entire year bartering social media ... I would have thought you were bat shit crazy. For real. I'm from Connecticut, and my parents remind me all the time that I need to get a job. Literally, even to this day.
There is something INCREDIBLY special happening in this space right now. I don't know what it is, I don't know why, I don't know how ... but social media makes life tangible. You can become accountable for your thoughts and accountable for your actions in ways I've never seen before. I can read every thought that I've had for the last 2 years on Twitter ... I can see all of the places that I frequent via Foursquare. The emotions are removed, and everything becomes very matter of fact and frank. We've never had that before. The potential for personal growth is astounding.
BAHHH!!! Greatest.Time.To.Be.Alive!!! EVERRR!!! BAHHH!!!!
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