This is the sixteenth of sixteen parts of a “book club” reading and discussion of Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz’s Never Eat Alone , where this book on building a lifelong community of colleagues, contacts, friends, and mentors is teased apart and looked at in detail. This entry covers the thirty-first chapter – “Welcome to the Connected Age” – which appears starting on page 291, as well as some concluding thoughts and links back to earlier entries in this series. Much of the material up to this point in Never Eat Alone occurs offline, in face to face meetings. But, as you sit there reading this article, the obvious is true. Many of our interactions today take place on line. We’re hyperconnected. Just fifteen years ago, when I was in high school, I would have to stay home waiting by the phone as people played phone tag to make plans. Conversations were infrequent and the vast majority of socialization happened face to face. Today, most teenagers are in constant contact with each other via texting. The vast majority of their socialization takes place through social networking and instant messaging protocols.

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