The new social
media surveys… will shackle your presence into the cybernetic world.
Have
you ever received a survey request at some point while traveling through the
cyberworld? (I am getting a red underline
under this last word folks… MSW apparently doesn’t recognize this as a valid
entry… hmmm!) Of course you received one… or… more likely, a hundred… We
all have.
And
what do you do? ... As most of us, you probably hit the “DELETE” button… in fact,
my delete button is blanked out… Overuse perhaps? What you may not know, is that ignoring these requests is causing havoc with the social networks, which rely
on these answers to justify their existence and the high cost of advertising,
which in turn helps cover the high salaries paid to the hired help… and, of course, to the executives.
So,
what do the social networking gurus do? Imagine the following, imaginary (maybe??) conversation within the sacred
halls of Facebook Nation…
-“Hey
man… we are going to get cut out here”
-“Why?”
-“Man,
we’re getting killed in the ratings and the add stuff’s not coming in” … “Got
called in to The Man’s office yesterday and I was told that unless the ratings
go up, we are all getting canned”
-“WOA…
hold on there…. What’chu mean?” “... this is a good gig man…”
A
serendipity moment comes in…
-“I
GOT IT!!!!” yells guru Jr…..
-“What….
What?” asks the other, while chewing on a breakfast energy bar…
-“HIT
THE ‘LIKE’ BUTTON” yells the first techie (Hmmm…
another red underline)
-“WHAT
DO YOU MEAN?” asks the second, getting caught up in the excitement…
-“Well…
we put up some nonsensical, syrupy junk and ask the user to hit the “like”
button….” … “Then we track the likes and dislikes and present this as proof of
user participation”
So
now, instead of getting the survey requests no one answered, we get these
nonsensical stupidities like the picture of a cute puppy wagging its tail and
get asked that “if you like this cute puppy, hit the like button and if enough
do it, we will give it a home” Of course, most people who ignored the
heretofore insipid “survey requests” will have their humanitarian instincts kicked into high gear and hit the
like button… therefore identifying themselves into a demographic group which
will receive specifically designed adds in their pages.
AHH!!
The mahveluss ways of the cyber world…
So
now… I am seriously thinking about getting off FB… there isn’t a time in which
I open the bloody app, that there aren’t at least 6-10 of these… “If you like the cute kitty/doggie/horsie, hit the button…”
or some such invitation. I guess they must be getting desperate to show their
numbers, since the stock value of the thing has gone down almost 50% since the
famous brouhaha which accompanied the public issuance… Mr. Z has lost some
600M, but then he has another 600M worth of unattended funds … what about those who lost and don’t
have that much left over? Well… such are the ways of capitalism… you get
greedy, you bet and… maybe you win, maybe you lose.
In the end, all these electronic gadgets and their accompanying social networking capabilities, which are making themselves an impervious part of our lives, will eventually (and this is, by no means, a far away eventuality,
mind you!!) take us directly into that Orwellian land of Big Brotherhood,
where every step we take and every action we carry out will be recorded
somewhere, by someone who is a total unknown to us.
And
all will be done for our protection and security, of course…
Be
Well … Be Back!!!
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