Groups

I joined a new social group for an online meeting recently. At in-person networking events, I’m generally comfortable enough to just join a table and introduce myself.

In this online meeting, however, the conversation just took off with the 10 people who obviously knew each other. And that’s normal enough. But that means I could only just listen politely. The ability to jump in and participate in this environment was fraught with awkwardness.

We have a long way to go if this method of socialising is going to stick. There are some new protocols for all of us to learn.