694,445 google queries
98,000 tweets
1500 blog posts
and so on (see the infographic below – thanks to business insider).
It’s pretty crowded out there – what are you doing to distinguish yourself?
In just one minute on the internet…
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Christmas cynicism or business and social opportunity?
Got this from eBay…
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Dear xyz,
We all get gifts that just aren’t right, it could be the size, the colour, or the gift itself. This year, leave your gifts in the shrink wrap.
From 8 – 9 January 2011, you can list your Brand New unwanted gifts for FREE starting at 99c or less.
Use the money you make to buy yourself a Brand New gift that you really want.
Clever you!
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Wow – how cynical is that?
Then again, I hear that the cost of unwanted Christmas presents is estimated to be in the billions…Maybe there’s something better that could be done with these though?
- give them away to charity
- create an exchange for people to swap things
- create a way for people to find out and get something more meaningful from the start (seems obvious)
- combine them all together…
There’s a business that I think would take off…
What do you think?
Warning – online social networks can be harmful
Social networks have always been around and have always taken time and effort. We’re talking about people here, not some abstract ‘network’. It takes time to stay in touch, to help others out, to listen to what people are saying. The relatively recent online versions are no exception, of course. In fact, they have enabled far greater networks which seem to be without boundaries.
But they do come at a cost. Each minute spent doing one thing, is a minute not spent doing something else. Online social networks can be so addictive that not everyone is consciously making this choice as they spend their time chatting and interacting away in twitter, and Facebook, and MySpace, and Flickr, and so on and so on.
For some people, it’s a conscious choice to spend that much time, and I get that, for some it is even their profession.
How about you, are you driving your online social networks, or are they driving you?
(Photo credit: Extra Ketchup)
