Look at Twitter! What started as a brain-zapping stream of fodder has become a major platform for a company’s leaders to shine. Ironically, some of the great “distractions from work” have now become critical to the success of an organization. You can play 1000s of games in your web browser or on your phone? Why not spend all afternoon on YouTube? Buzzfeed? Facebook? Funny GIFs and memes? Today there are ten million distractions from work. So you mean there was an era of computing when there was just one distraction from work? If it were possible to remake the film in the modern era, it’s more likely that our two heroes would meet one another by way of a retweet.Ĥ) The greatest threat to workplace productivity was the card game Solitaire.
Getting to mailsmith update#
This is the kind of status update that electrifies social media. It got on at 42nd and off at 59th, where I assume it was going to Bloomingdale’s to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake. “Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today I saw one. Think of Meg Ryan’s email, but today as a Facebook post: Of course, you can always choose to remain anonymous on the web (see comments sections on major news websites), but anonymity is not baked into the web.ģ) They wasted witty insight on a stranger.Ĭan we talk about those witty emails? Today, those lovable insights wouldn’t get wasted on a stranger on the other end of an email. So this whole problem of “not knowing someone” has almost entirely gone away. Today you can get to know someone pretty well within 10 minutes on Google and Facebook. It all happened while seated at desks.Ģ) Because there was no social media, almost everyone online was anonymous. One more ironic thing here. YOU HAD TO SIT DOWN FOR THE INTERNET. Today, you can be online wherever you go. Not even a sound on the streets of New York. I go online and… my breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words: You’ve Got Mail. Meg Ryan’s character reminds us just in case we forgot: It was a hassle to get online, but email was cool. The film is a time capsule of dial-up Internet that most of us have forgotten. 1) AOL was a thing and people actually looked forward to email.
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