Bob Dylan's take on Social Media

Just press play on this one and then start reading the text below. If you’re one of those struggling “social web advocates” out there. Just keep this in mind whilst on your way to work in the morning. I have this text on the cubical wall in my work area. I read it through every day. I smile at it and I am happy to know that I was late in figuring this one out. Bob Dylan already thought about this soooooo long ago that I wasn’t even born. The times are changing… and even though this is another version than the one that Bob does himself… since it is evening when I am writing this post… this is the most suitable…

Come gather ‘round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’.

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won’t come again And don’t speak too soon For the wheel’s still in spin And there’s no tellin’ who That it’s namin’. For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin’.

Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside And it is ragin’. It’ll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin’.

Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don’t criticize What you can’t understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin’. Please get out of the new one If you can’t lend your hand For the times they are a-changin’.

The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is Rapidly fadin’. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin’.