Networking?

Next Wednesday (the 18th) there will be a new "networking" event at Common Grounds from 6:45am to 8:00am.  Please join us for a good cup of coffee and hopefully some good company.

Now what exactly "networking"?  When I grew up there was no such thing.  Then along came computers and you were asked to log on to a network.  Now a group of professional people will get together to network.  I bet if I went down to Port Clinton Fish and asked what network was they would have an entirely different definition..  Then there is CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox, these are all networks yet they do not join together to trade ideas or socialize.  If I am channel surfing does this mean I am "networking"?  Is eating dinner with my family some sort of networking?  Every morning in the coffee shop we "network" with other people.

Wait a minute-it sounds to me that networking is very similiar to human interaction, hasn't this been around since the beginning of time.  Why can't we call it COMMUNICATION not some new word that sounds very inanimate?  Just an idea.  Please join us for a morning of communication and dialogue and interaction.