It seems that everyone has a story about where they were and how they felt when the Great Quake hit today. Personally, I felt like I was back at Bar A around 2am during my Belmar years.

I really didn’t know what was going on, I just knew it was weird.

I had just popped a couple of Excedrin and I was starring at my computer screen… when all of the sudden my entire building started rocking, I thought I was going to be sick. I got up and walked to the front of my store at Adpro Imprints where I saw t-shirts and sweatshirts swinging all over the place.

Is this really an earthquake? In New Jersey?

After the shaking had stopped, I ran back to my computer…I needed to know what Mother Google had to say about what just happened to me…I was disappointed when I found nothing under the news feed.

Then I thought, of course, Facebook…Here was my post: “Ok, was that an earthquake or what?”

Within 8 seconds my friend Joe Leone from Social Media Monsters responded that it was indeed an earthquake, with a 5.8 magnitude and the epicenter was in Virginia.

Wow! I had just gotten the most breaking news possible in 8 seconds…and on Facebook no less!

I was also happy to know that I wasn’t going crazy as questions and comments about the quake from friends began filling my “news” feed.

And I thought…How cool is it that we get “news” from Facebook instantaneously?

John Zalepka