"Facebook" and my "dental friends"
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 9:15AM It's hard not to notice that this year seems to have been the year of "Facebook" or "social media". 500 million people connecting online with new and old friends. Everyone wants to be in touch with their friends, seemingly all the time. It's hard to miss the addiction that being connected online has become. Have you see two people having dinner together in a restaurant, each on iPhones or Backberry's texting to someone not at their table or had to avoid someone on the strret too busy to look where they are walking as they text? 
Once in a while I'll have a patient try to text while I am treating them. Not advisable...
I have been fortunate to have built up thousands of "friends", not on Facebook but right in my dental practice. I get to hear all about the lives of my patients or should we now refer to you as "dental friends". Marriages, babies, looking up at kids I use to look down too, holiday trips and new jobs. And at this time of year everyone wants to know where I'll be skiing this winter (Austria if you're interested... going to be the second time...the shnitzel is great!).
And every once in a while one of my dental friends will ask for non dental advice or confide a problem because they need a friend to listen. And that's humbling.
So "Facebook" has been happeining in my dental office for a long time and it's better in person!
Happy Holidays!
Reader Comments (2)
social media sites really is getting into our system., in almost every sphere of life. and we can use it in a right manner.
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Nic