Best-Selling Author, Ken McArthur talks to personal development expert John Di Lemme in this powerful webcast as a part of the jvAlertLive Pre-Event Perpetual Learning Series. http://jvAlertLive.com
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Trey Pennington Was A Success Story and He Had Friends …
He had 4982 Friends on Facebook and 111,317 followers on Twitter.
I was one of them.
He also apparently had community of friends in the church where he worshiped in Greenville, SC.
That’s where he chose to kill himself 23 hours ago.
Here’s how Bridget Pilloud describes Trey …
He was a marketing genius, a dad, a sweet, intelligent person. He believed in the ability of people and had the unique skills to carefully relate marketing and social media in a real, easy-to-understand way.
Condolences and memories and expressions of grief spill over Facebook and Twitter including one that said …
“One of the worst things about social media is we can be surrounded by so many and still feel completely alone.”
You can be a massive business success and still be alone, because …
Helplessness carries stigma.
Countless friends of mine who have been massively successful in Internet Marketing, Authoring, Speaking or Business are struggling right now.
And they don’t want to admit it …
Because their business and future success depend on their current success.
Or so they think.
They feel as though if they are going through tough times, they are no longer successful and the longer it lasts, the more they think it will never get better.
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Say you can’t enough times and you will believe it.
Say it’s over and it will be.
Say you are a failure and you fail.
Shout it from the mountain top …
We ALL struggle!
You are not alone!
Life has ups and downs no matter what level of success you have seen.
All around you are people with massive problems and the people who are well known and put what they know out there for the public to comment on, struggle just as often as the person who is not in the arena.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Thodore Roosevelt – Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Let’s not be too quick to condemn.
Trey Pennington had depression and he killed himself.
As Bridget Pilloud says, “Depression is a whole-body disease. It’s a mental illness. It’s not something that people need to just get over. It’s not something that people can help.”
If you feel suicidal, but don’t feel as if you can reach out to those in your immediate network, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Get together with people.
Trey Pennington’s last post on Twitter was …
Be attentive to the people around you. Many of them are hurting and you would never know.
As Bridget says, “None of us has to go through life alone, and none of us should die because we felt too alone to go on. Love social media or hate it, be the connections your friends and family and colleagues need—even if it doesn’t seem like they do.”
Status updating has also grown in popularity among older users; one in ten say they use Twitter or another service to share updates or see updates about others
Between April 2009 and May 2010, social networking use among internet users ages 50-64 grew by 88%–from 25% to 47%.
During the same period, use among those ages 65 and older grew 100%–from 13% to 26%.
By comparison, social networking use among users ages 18-29 grew by 13%—from 76% to 86%.
“Young adults continue to be the heaviest users of social media, but their growth pales in comparison with recent gains made by older users,” explains Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist for the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and author of the report. “Email is still the primary way that older users maintain contact with friends, families and colleagues, but many older users now rely on social network platforms to help manage their daily communications.”
One in five (20%) online adults ages 50-64 say they use social networking sites on a typical day, up from 10% one year ago.
Among adults ages 65 and older, 13% log on to social networking sites on a typical day, compared with just 4% who did so in 2009.
At the same time, the use of status update services like Twitter has also grown—particularly among those ages 50-64. One in ten internet users ages 50 and older now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves or see updates about others.
Just 5% of users ages 50-64 had used Twitter or another status update service in 2009, and 11% now say they use these tools.
On a typical day, 6% of online adults ages 50-64make Twitter a part of their routine, up from the 1% who did so in 2009.
“Social media has the potential to bridge generational gaps. There are few other spaces—online or offline—where tweens, teens, sandwich generation members, grandparents, friends and neighbors regularly intersect and communicate across the same network,” said Madden.
These findings come from a nationwide telephone survey of 2,252 American adults (including 744 interviewed on cell phones) conducted between April 29 and May 30, 2010. The margin of error is two percentage points for the total sample and three percentage points for results based on internet users (n=1,756).
About the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the internet through surveys that examine how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives.
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