Response Blog #1 The Sheen Factor

Recently, a classmate of mine and author of the blog, DC Watercooler, wrote a post about the role traditional and social media plays in the proverbial water coolers of our lives. He mentioned how saving a tidbit of gossip for the next time you see someone in a few days is now out of the question. This was never so evident as today when I checked my twitter account on my phone and saw a tweet from another classmate regarding Charlie Sheen. What he's up to is really beside the point, because who can really keep up. What was more important was that not a second later, I overheard some of the guys I work with talking about being on Charlie Sheen's Team. They are goofballs so who knows what they meant by that. Five minutes later, I step into the receptionist's area out front and notice the news broadcaster on the flatscreen tv talking about, you guessed it, Charlie Sheen! This all within minutes of each other! I didn't even make it to the "watercooler" before I had been barraged by different communications media. I'm glad to say that word of mouth actually was one of these media. Some things never change.