Facebook Not Sex: The “Funky Business” Guy...

It is rather astonishing to learn how far social networking online has come and how it has changed our approach to life and doing simple things like E-mailing etc. For instance, one can mobilise support for a cause or advocate for various issues at the click of a button. Many getting the satisfaction and artificial ‘high’ as I would like to call it, from having multiple networks and contacts on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Ning only to mention a few. I suppose one could go as far as saying the kind of satisfaction you would expect from sex.

No folks, this is not a class in Sex 101, therefore we will reel you back in

“Facebook has become so relevant in our lives and giving us somewhat more satisfaction than sex...”

These were the words of Dr. Kjell A. Nordstroem. Dr Nordstroem is ‘enfant terrible’ of new world business, ranked 13 in 2007 by Thinkers 50, author of many number 1 selling books including Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance, which ranked at number 16 in Bloomsbury survey of the best business books of all time, with the book being featured on CNN, CNBC, in Fortune, FT etc.

For someone who is not easily alarmed by such claims I must say this caught me unaware, just as much as it did many other participants at this year’s MACE/MScom conference in Lugano Switzerland. However you gradually understand where Dr Nordstroem was going with this.

Many by default or perhaps through their own choosing find themselves in that situation to the extent of agreeing with what Dr Nordstroem was claiming. Far from it being just a claim this was actually derived from an official study carried out.

CIYDA Says: We were obviously on the right path when we sought to bring Zimbabwean youths to network more amongst themselves. By going beyond that border of immediate friendship it is undoubtedly that we will influence someone else’s life through the positives we bring in networking, after all one author said, “Learn what you need, share what you know...”.

If this means many youths are not pursuing unrealistic sexual endeavours and spending their idle time on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Ning etc. that’s undoubtedly and added bonus to be commended. Perhaps we wouldn’t have had the case of the students at Chinhoyi University of Technology that we commented on last month.
CIYDA has identified social networking sites amongst other tools as platforms that will shape the way we engage and harness youth initiatives.

Yes we still have a long way to go for our endeavours to reach full maturity but we can guarantee those influential in many institutions that in Zimbabwe that, yes give youths condoms with their health concerns at heart, and yes as well as those computers, but they will undoubtedly get more usage and lasting satisfaction from the latter.

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What is CIYDA
Contemporary Indigenous Youth Development Africa (CIYDA) is a non-profit organisation founded in 2008 and is based in Harare, Zimbabwe. CIYDA is working to develop and empower the youths of Zimbabwe for the benefits of the nation and Africa as a continent through the use of new media, information technology and networking amongst other things. Through these drivers, CIYDA aims to facilitate an information hub and service provision in the areas of Business Start-up, Social & Cultural Integration, Socio-economic Mentoring and Volunteering. Through current globalisation trends and dispersion of Zimbabwean youths, CIYDA currently has a network connection of approximately 500 Zimbabwean youths in many countries amongst them, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia and Canada.