Hello my name is Marci and I have created Social MarkEating as a way to hopefully bring people face to face again.
I sometimes facebook, I barely twitter, I have dreams of blogging (look at me doing it! - I wrote this long ago before I found blogspot.com) but truth is on a day to day basis I am happy if I can connect with a friend through email or a quick text. Albeit, these new fangled avenues of connection are handy and downright loved at times (declining that date you really didn’t want to go on via email, texting the chatty friend when you only have a minute, or reuniting with an old friend on facebook) but I miss good old fashioned contact of a smile, hug, or the sound of laughter, not :), {}, or lol.
With these friends, once the connection is made, the few messages back and forth, now what? Do we live in cyberspace eternally or bring it (what is it?!?) to the next level. So often those relationships last only the few days in which they are reunited and we are left not knowing where to go from there.
We all need to it, and chances are really enjoy it, at times too much. What is it? Eating!!
I am hoping to create the next step in Social Marketing - Social MarkEating!
In these times when the real emotions are replaced by emoticons wouldn’t it be nice to socialize with friends over a real glass of wine (not your favorite cocktail quiz) and possibly do some networking with a real handshake instead of clicking your way through linkedin.
Don’t leave those relationships hanging wondering whose turn is it to reply and feeling guilty when it is yours. Find your phone (oh there is is right next to you, earpiece already inserted...) and call a friend. Any friend. One you want to get to know better or one you constantly wish you could spend more time wish.
Social MarkEating has arrived. It is simply the simple idea of getting back to basics and socializing over food.
