Lead by Example

As members and future leaders of the tech community, we also lead our families, friends, and neighbors in adapting to and accepting new technologies. We need to lead by example in carefully adopting and using technology. A common example is that we often talk about the negative effects of spending too much time on social media, especially with our children, but what do we say when we aren't talking? What do our children and friends see? We are the passionate ones in this subject and as such, we must be the first to lay down our theoretical weapons of social isolation to converse and interact with one another. Would you go to a dentist that never brushes his teeth? While our hypocrisy may not be as socially unaccepted, the consequences on those we are trying to help and guide will be similar, disbelief and loss of authority. Practice what we preach, and preach what is right, not what is socially accepted.