I recently embarked on my first vacation as an employee of Netscope to the beautiful desolate Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean. I have been on lots of family trips and have had my fair share of traveling but this time was different.

Trips use to take a lot more resources and effort. I remember on my first trip out of the country I had to pack a paperback book, a journal, disposable camera, and stamps for the postcards I would buy. On top of all those pre-arrangements, when I got back I had to wait two weeks for pictures to develop that if I wanted to share with friends and family I would have to make doubles and send by snail mail. This time around was so much easier! 

I was laying on the beach with my dad reading one of his 5 books all on his iphone, my mom listening to music on her ipod, my sister was uploading pictures of snorkeling with sting rays to her Facebook Page, my brother could find World Cup updates anywhere we went, and when the vacation was over I posted an album of all my pictures that friends and family could see. Technology and Social Media made traveling quite compact and convenient; and being a Social Media Manager at Netscope turned an excellent vacation into a fitting post for our blog!