Social media? Nothing to be afraid of
The National Law Journal
March 03, 2011
- An excerpt:
Adrian Dayton
In the Middle Ages a certain class of people was more mistrusted than any other: millers.
You see, few people owned their own mill, and so they needed to take their grain to the miller to be ground into flour. The problem was that, when the grain was handed over, there was no way of knowing if the miller was being honest — he could have been keeping some for himself. The common farmer had no way of knowing whether he was being cheated. This same mistrust happens today with car mechanics, doctors and probably even some types of lawyers. Sadly, some people feel the same way about social media.
Many lawyers claim to be technologically too far behind to ever use such advanced technologies as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. They mistrust it, just like farmers mistrusted the millers, because they don't understand the technology.
I have a simple message for those in fear of this new technology: ....
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