Remember the days of Facebook before your mom had an account? Remember Twitter when people didn’t know when a Tweet was?

Those days are gone.

You know social media has reached mainstream status when social terms start making it into our vocabulary.

I bet if you shared an idea in a work email, and you got a response that said “+1” you would recognize that the recipient thought the idea was a good one. Thank you Google, for that short cut.

Or, say that you sent an email indicating a challenge or issue that needs to be overcome. If you received a “dislike!” response, you would understand the implied empathy for your situation, thanks to Facebook (and there’s not even an official “dislike” button anywhere on the site.”

Business cards are nearly obsolete, thanks to LinkedIn. “Are You On LinkedIn?” eliminates the destruction of trees. Which I suppose is good, since I rarely have the opportunity to use a business card, except to put in fishbowls for “free lunch” drawings.

What social terms do you use in your daily speech?