These days I consider that I have 3 lives. My first life is with my wife and kids, as well as my brother and sister’s family. Life with family is a good thing, and it definitely comes first for me. At least, it should be my first life. I occasionally get my priorities mixed up, but then again, I am human. My second life is as a real estate agent. Being a real estate agent, I list homes for sale or rent, show people homes they could buy or lease, and on occasion, earn money for helping people buy, sell, or rent their property. To be honest, I thoroughly enjoy that life, nearly as much as my first life.
My 3rd life, is almost a secret life, at least among the people I primarily interact with in my first and second lives. However, the people I know in my 3rd life, I know pretty well. I interact with them “socially” via networking mediums like Twitter, Plurk, PropertyQube, Trulia, FriendFeed, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, ActiveRain, and BrightKite. I’m almost embarrassed to admit to my 3rd life friends that I don’t use my flickr account. I frequently StumbleUpon things, so that they can be shared with others, or make note of them de.lici.usly.
Of all of the places I can be found in my 3rd life, Twitter currently ranks as #1. Twitter has enabled me to learn so many things about blogging, real estate, and life. It’s simply amazing what 140 characters of what someone is doing “right now” can accomplish. I’ll never forget when I tweeted Diana Santos the day she started her new blog: Diana’s Neighborhood. I loved the look of the site, and sent her a tweet with a comment saying so. She was flabbergasted that I even knew it existed, and was sure I must be right there in the office with her (she’s in Connecticut, and of course I’m in Scottsdale). That’s part of the magic of this 3rd life. It’s so instant, so real, so now. It’s not all of the time, however. Like my 1st and 2nd life…it’s there when I can be there, and no one complains when I can’t be. It’s socializing. It’s like the 15 minutes I spend at Starbucks most mornings with Mike, Mike, and Michael (why a Steve is allowed to be in the group, I don’t know.)
If you have a mind to poke in and check out what REALTORS and other social networking agents of change are doing when they aren’t doing “real work”, feel free to sign up and befriend or link to me in any of the social networking forums above. If you already have an account at one of the above sites, but we aren’t friends or aren’t yet linked, please find me.
Oh, and if any of the above sites require a beta invite, shoot me an email or leave a comment, I’ll be happy to “hook you up” if I have beta invites left to give out.
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But, do you get to eat for three, have beer for three and sleep for three?
OMG!! It only took me almost 8 months to go back to your post and notice that you wrote about DianasNeighborhood!! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate that!
I remember reading the post, and clicking on one of the social networking links you listed, I guess I never made it back to read your entire post – my bad!
I hope all is well and winter isn’t “too rough” in Arizona (Ha!) I’m up to my butt in snow – I can’t take it anymore. Yesterday, after showing a few homes – my toes froze and took forever to get warm! I wanted to cry – and now I hear a significant storm is due for Tuesday! Now I think I will cry! LOL – Thanks again…. Diana
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