With Facebook’s recent security faux pas it’s hard to wrap your head around the concept of making your social media personal. A trend is developing to physically connect with those you consider “friends” online. Think about it: out of all your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn buds, how many do you really know? I mean really? When was the last time you spoke to the people who pop up daily on your news feed? Microsoft has taken the idea and created a contest giving Facebook users the chance to personally meet and reconnect with their social media circle; from frie-nemies, to ex’s, to long lost besties. Although the contest is really just a marketing campaign for their newest cell phone (The KIN) , the philosophy behind it can be found everywhere. Aside from Microsoft, this idea is also demonstrated in the documentary “People Aren’t a Series of Updates”. This short film was created by two grad students in 2009 as a way to “bridge the gap between relationships.” Graham Smith and Josh Barron traveled over 1800 miles in about a week to reconnect with their social media circle in person. Although social media was created to keep us connected, we seem to become more disconnected with our so-called “friends” daily. Hopefully the concept of a social network road trip will continue to catch on.