My sister spent a lot of time in the airport this holiday. In one airport there was an ad by some computer-type company that was showing all the ways their company/product was making the world better.
She sent me a photo she took of part of the ad and wanted to know what I thought. Here’s the photo: 
What do I think? In a word: BS. Maybe BS isn’t a word, but you get the idea, dudes.
I think computer stuff can make it so that doctors can give eachother patient information all over the world, and doctors can put in there the personality of patients so that other doctors know. But other than that, has the world forgotten what knowing someone personally means?
Knowing someone personally means that you know them. Personally.
People I Know Personally:
My wife
My daughters
My mom
My extended family
My coworkers
Friends in my city
Highschool classmates
People I Cannot Possibly Know Personally:
A doctor I’ve never seen
A person I’ve never seen
Bloggers I’ve never seen
My sister’s friends in her city
Extended family I’ve never seen
It’s cool and all that doctors can share patient information with the internet and stuff, but they can’t claim to personally know patients they’ve never seen. That goes against what it means to know someone personally!
Corporate America trying to tell us what it means to know someone…. Man, it sucks.
