An Essential Persepctive

by Eric and Sean on April 15, 2009
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Note: Today’s guest post is from Dan Miranda of Command Your Time. Please take the time to read his post as there is an important reveal inside that addresses one of the essential truths of our collective future.

timerThe year was 2003 when I first clicked “Enter” on the Yahoo.com sign up page. I was excited as any young man could have been. I had just received my first e-mail address and it was a more significant moment than I had imagined. Having a virtual home gave me reason to explore the Internet and changed my life forever.

Because of my addiction to sports, the first real website I fell in love with was ESPN.com. I would check once every day to see the latest news and information, and to this day, I still do. There is no doubt that ESPN.com was also another factor that lead to my exploration of websites of all kinds.

Somewhere around 2004, I started playing around with Google. Not only did this introduce me to many new websites, it was soon to become the world’s premier search engine. As you’ll learn later, I was (perhaps surprisingly) always ahead of my friends technologically. It wasn’t because my parents had more money or I rushed out to the store first, it was because I had a distinct talent to pick out things that were going to become the new, hit thing.

I found American Online Instant Messenger, or AIM, in 2005. To be exact, I had three different buddies (my list now ranges over 400). Anyhow, this was the precise start of my social networking career. It marked the point where I was interacting with others I knew through some online form. Social media is the future. Quote me on that.

My forum joining year was 2006. I became apart of wrestling forums, sports forums, and television show forums; it really gave myself a place to stay at home. It helped me connect with the human person and made me a more complete human being. In 2008, I found two things that would change my life: blogging and Facebook – we will deal with the latter in a short moment.

I dawdled with some new blogs and quit shortly thereafter, (this time I’m here for good) but it gave me the idea that perseverance was taking over in the world. Because there are that many people in the universe, only few can climb above the rest. Sound familiar? Darwin’s theory of evolution.

On April 4, 2008 I signed up for Facebook, a move that more or less changed my life, and not necessarily in the positive way you might expect. The need for balance in our lives suggested other aspects of my life would fall – hard. It was a struggle to get through each and every day. When I stopped using Facebook in the summer, I became more and more socially active (surprising isn’t it?). Some of the concepts I used in that period of time to balance my life will be displayed on my current blog.

2009 brought the year of the upstart website Command Your Time. The average person only lives about 245,300,800 seconds. Command Your Time makes sure you use it to the best of your abilities.

Why should you care?
Because I’m only thirteen years old. I have spent a major part of my childhood on the Internet as have my peers. It’s part of the future. Kids are going to discover the Net at a younger age and as an adult, it is your duty to be aware.

Right now, you’re probably thinking one of two things: a) whether you should read another word or 2) about what tomorrow’s generation is going to entail. Here are three things that I expect to increase drastically in size over the next ten years:
  1. Social Media. This is probably the most obvious one. I think it’s certain that sites we haven’t even heard of will give Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace a run for their money. Out of the three aforementioned sites though, I think Facebook will end up being the most successful, with Twitter at a close second.
  2. Blogging in form of videos. We have seen footprints of what could be a huge explosion. If YouTube challenges Viddler, we could see a magnificent battle for the top “blogger-friendly” video making website. I’m assuming everybody is going to have a much higher bandwidth and hopefully the sites will reflect this.
  3. Search engines. They’ll be more precise and won’t just cover the web. They will be our official directory. Google will remain prominent in that scene, but will slyly expand into bigger, better things. For instance, it’s my belief that we won’t refer to Google as a search engine, but rather a complex website with a ton of great features (ie: GMail, Google Maps, Google Reader, etc).
Through internet triumphs and defeats, I start a whole new chapter at Command Your Time. Reserve your spot on an e-mail or RSS feed list today.

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