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I Pity the Foo who don't like Social Media.

Last night turned out to be pretty awesome.   On my way home from work, I do as I usually do as I wait for the train…I checked my twitter.  I saw a tweet from fellow Phillyian Alex Hillman.   He had a ticket to the Foo Fighters show at the Spectrum (which I didn’t even know about) and wanted to give it away.   I tweeted back for him to email me and I gave him a ring and went.

How rad?  Twitter FTW!   Alex is a great cat who runs IndyHall, the famous Philly co-working space.

The show was great, Foo Fighters played for like 2 hours, and other than the WACHOVIA Spectrum only having one ATM, fun was had by all.   Even the guy next to me (not Alex) who thought he WAS the drummer of Foo Fighters.

That’s the power of social media.   Alex didn’t have my cellphone # even though we’re friends, and he knows a lot of people in Philly, so he just put the tweet out leaving it open to anyone.    That’s awesome.  That’s social.  So anyone who says that we’re Geeks who live in the basement of our parents house and never see the light of day because we use tools like Twitter, they’re wrong.

In between sets we had some great conversations about what he’s up to, what I’m up to, and he’s really doing some ground-breaking projects.   Smart dude.

Oh, and Big ups to Brian for the tickets! (whom I have never met)