I often hear people at networking events suggest that there’s no substitute for having a proper discussion.
So my question today is, why are we having so many micro-moments on social media that are not proper discussions at all, they are just sound bites, that interrupt people’s thinking and their ability to focus on the very topic you want them to focus on.
We are just interested in either liking and moving on or we may if we know the person well, feel compelled to write something that has flown into our brain in response to a quote, a video message, an article, a controversial point or comment.
We’re not entering into any discussion at all actually, we may feel as if our readers are, but they rarely are discussing our message.
They just haven’t got the time. We’re all too busy writing our own stuff instead of discussing other people’s stuff.
So what about a new platform, which is just audio only. The article is audio and the responses are audio too. I think Medium might be moving in that direction actually. They already have audio articles, so the natural extension of that would be audio responses? Well for me it would be and I believe it would add more value to the discussion and the ability to hear people’s views by hearing their voices is more powerful right?
Happy discussing.