Last night, I decided to re-sync my iPhone to my computer to update my music playlist and audiobooks. This got me thinking about how we as human beings tend to collect stuff for our enjoyment and even extend this behaviour into our work life at times.
We don’t really get rid of stuff. We just replace it. We are collectors!
Take movies for instance. We have shelves and shelves of VHS tapes. Then, the formats changed and we switched to DVDs. Now, we have an entirely new collection! The same goes for music CDs. We have now replaced them with downloaded MP3s from iTunes.
Even when we decide that we’re no longer interested in a particular genre of movies or music, old habits never really go away; we just make alternative choices.
Online is the same. We join social networks, like Twitter or Facebook. The landscape may change but the same rules apply: we collect friends and followers.
TV didn’t replace radio. The Internet did not make newspapers go away. We made a choice. We created more options. We stopped buying newspapers and magazines but we loaded up our Google Reader with subscriptions. Radio with podcasts. TV with YouTube. Less and less time is spent in front of the television so we can sit in front of the monitor to exercise our index finger. It’s all relevant!
It’s in our DNA to collect. We’re just selective of what they are and how they affect us.
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