From Netthinking to Networking to Netfeeling: Using Social Media to Help People in Job Transitions

The relational nature of humans and the importance of human society as a stage for human actions and emotions are some of the core assumptions of Individual Psychology. The quality of one’s ties to community is tested constantly, especially during transitions. This article explores the phenomenon of job transition in a context of general life transitions and the role of social media in maintaining one’s ties to community and one’s fulfillment of an Adlerian task of work. This article also investigates modern social media’s ability to strengthen one’s sense of a “net” and, ideally, to create a “netfeeling,” or Gemeinschaftsgefühl.