The world of communications has changed dramatically over the past few years. I should know, my past jobs has led me to make an incredible 200,000 plus phone calls resulting in thousands of deals and millions of dollars for several business. Now, however, it seems that the way of tele-communication has all but died. As the phone book shrinks in size and weight so do the opportunities and doors that I once thrived on for my livelihood. This may be becoming a global village but at what cost?

Do people even meet for coffee anymore?

Social Network giants hold monopoly on all the connections while other suffer the consequences of not thinking of it first or jumping on board as a follower. I remember the good old days where I could pick up the phone and actually speak to a real living person. This is just not the case now-a-days.

As we sit around out virtual cafe’s talking about the next billion dollar social idea and getting all excited about the 500th friend now accumulated on Facebook, the question of reality comes and goes as fast as the text messages received by friends I have never met in real life…

prisoners by technology.