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All those of you who have been fortunate enough to escape the charms of that notworking tool that is Facebook (until now) might find it a bit hard to understand what I am talking about. However, even if you don't have a Facebook account (yet) I will try to write this in such a way that you may be able to understand.
A couple of days ago a few people in my Facebook friend list became fans of this "club" called "I dont care about your farm, or your fish, or your park, or your mafia!!!". I clicked on the appropriate button and became a fan too. Unlike many of the other 4.5 million fans of this club (that's roughly how many there were when I became a fan, there are over 4.8 million now) I know that being in this club doesn't help much, at all actually. If you really don't want to hear anything more about Mafia Wars, Happy Aquarium, FarmVille and the rest of the extremely popular social network games played on Facebook all you have to do is hit the Hide button at the top right of a game-related post and "pouf" you'll never hear from that game again! That's not why I'm writing this post though.
As an employer and manager of people who work with computers and Internet I've often felt the urge to smack somebody over the head when I "caught" them playing Mafia Wars while they were supposed to be working on something. However, being a strong believer in human creativity and all things that converge to it I will say "let them have their fish, their mafia and their farm". As long as the job gets done and I keep being surprised by the people I work with when they take the initiative to come up with new solutions to old problems I will believe this is the way to go.
Plus, working in new media we can't content ourselves with simply working with the Internet anymore. The Internet is not new anymore. New media now means social networks and social networking games and if money is to be made from new media we will need people who know the media so we can harness their power.
And on this note I will leave you with Sir Ken Robinson discussing education and creativity (via Facebook).
P.S.: @G. - when I said "new solutions to old problems" I didn't mean new excuses for issues with already overdue deadlines. :))
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