The exams are coming! Routine questions are of course: What can we expect, what do we have to learn and more importantly what not. We have a filosophy exam, a language exam and... tumtumtumtum.... a social media exam. I wonder what that will be about. Actually, I hope it is about Twitter with questions like: What is your funniest tweet ever? And: Who do you find the most irritating person on twitter? Stuff like that.
Twitter is amazing! I can read about Balkenende's breakfast, and when Wilders is walking his hair and when Rutten is sitting on his yacht. I will probably be voting on the person with the best tweets. But appartantly you have to have a supported argumentation for your vote. Luckily, they came up with changes in the softdrugsdepartement. Something I happen to have an opinion on! Now I am allowed to vote, hurray!
Maybe I should buy some new shoes. Voting shoes. In the color of my party.. Unfortunately orange and blue aren't my colors. What are your colors? (If I like them I can buy shoes in that color.)
woensdag 19 mei 2010
zondag 9 mei 2010
Evil Overlord
I discovered that this study about social media has my interest, but that our University, the one in Tilburg, has a thing with language. See, there is a problem: I don't have a thing with language. So other options need to be looked for.
Luckily, I found this website: eviloverlord.com. This website shows that if there is nothing that I want to do, I can always become the Evil Overlord. It suits me well, don't you think? We learn all about social media, how to manipulate people with it and stuff like that. Evil Overlord stuff. Maybe they can call our study Howtobecomeeviloverlord-science.
Luckily, I found this website: eviloverlord.com. This website shows that if there is nothing that I want to do, I can always become the Evil Overlord. It suits me well, don't you think? We learn all about social media, how to manipulate people with it and stuff like that. Evil Overlord stuff. Maybe they can call our study Howtobecomeeviloverlord-science.
dinsdag 27 april 2010
Marketing
Have you ever been a target for marketing on twitter or hyves or facebook?
Luckily, I am not (yet). I heard a story from my English teacher that he Tweeted something about kitchens and cooking or something like that. He got an immediate response from some kitchen-selling company that wanted to know if he was interested in the latest updates in the kitchen-world.
Obviously, anyone would want to be updated about the kitchen-world. It' s what you live for.
But that' s not the point. The point is, that these companies apparantly have certain software that locates the use of the word kitchen on Twitter, people that watch the software closely and everytime there is a hit FLY to the page were they can react! So WE, the innocent people, can be updated about KITCHENS.
In short:
1. People are actually payed to annoy us.
2. Kitchens will soon rule the world.
3. Twitter has become a advertisement that is adapted to YOUR personal interests.
Is anyone worried?
Luckily, I am not (yet). I heard a story from my English teacher that he Tweeted something about kitchens and cooking or something like that. He got an immediate response from some kitchen-selling company that wanted to know if he was interested in the latest updates in the kitchen-world.
Obviously, anyone would want to be updated about the kitchen-world. It' s what you live for.
But that' s not the point. The point is, that these companies apparantly have certain software that locates the use of the word kitchen on Twitter, people that watch the software closely and everytime there is a hit FLY to the page were they can react! So WE, the innocent people, can be updated about KITCHENS.
In short:
1. People are actually payed to annoy us.
2. Kitchens will soon rule the world.
3. Twitter has become a advertisement that is adapted to YOUR personal interests.
Is anyone worried?
vrijdag 16 april 2010
Slamming doors
Is there a twitter page on people who slam the door too hard? The guy who lives next to me does that. I hear him come in, putting every foot down as if it is a 800 ton weight. So the house is already shaking. And then he walks into his room and SLAMS the door! The flowers fall of my table and I have to re-arrange my cd-collection.
And now it isn't that much of a problem if you come in every now and then. But no, the world does not agree. He has to come in and go out every half an hour and make it some kind of contest which time of the day he can slam the door the loudest.
Right, social media. Imagine him reading this! It is not really possible because he doesn't know I have a blog, but imagine he does know. Would he slam the door less loudly? Too bad I don't have the guts to tell him to read my blog and then watch the effect. (But when you're reading this: Dude, why are you calling so often =O Just go there! It's way cheaper!)
It's the same thing we do with our blogs, change the layout and see what it does. We had a class today in which we were told that little changes can generate unexpected results. Who knows, maybe I will get four readers instead of three =D
And now it isn't that much of a problem if you come in every now and then. But no, the world does not agree. He has to come in and go out every half an hour and make it some kind of contest which time of the day he can slam the door the loudest.
Right, social media. Imagine him reading this! It is not really possible because he doesn't know I have a blog, but imagine he does know. Would he slam the door less loudly? Too bad I don't have the guts to tell him to read my blog and then watch the effect. (But when you're reading this: Dude, why are you calling so often =O Just go there! It's way cheaper!)
It's the same thing we do with our blogs, change the layout and see what it does. We had a class today in which we were told that little changes can generate unexpected results. Who knows, maybe I will get four readers instead of three =D
zondag 11 april 2010
iPads and letters
What is it? Something like an electronic agenda right? It might as well be that in a year, the iPad is the best selling 'pad' until now. The reason I thought of the iPad as a social media item is (besides the fact that it continuously in the news) that there was a comic about it in the newspaper, where the character says that people should be careful: the iPad is multifunctional, so people might try to put it in the senseo-machine.
Now I am actually thinking about doing that.
But something else, until now, i've only been talking about digital social media. But there has to be something non-digital that is a form of communication... Think hard... Newspapers! Magazines! The big difference is that there isn't very much interaction within these social media. However, there is one form of social media I can think of that is non-digital and interactive.
LETTERS! In fact, people write to little to eachother. And with too little I mean NEVER. Why don't they do that? It is so much fun to receive a handwritten letter from friends, or your partner or family. In fact, I'm going to write my best friends a letter very soon! But not too soon, because when they read this they will expect it.
The moral of this story: write your best friend a letter to tell them how much you appreciate him or her. It will make you feel so good!
(Or you can just chop wood...)
Now I am actually thinking about doing that.
But something else, until now, i've only been talking about digital social media. But there has to be something non-digital that is a form of communication... Think hard... Newspapers! Magazines! The big difference is that there isn't very much interaction within these social media. However, there is one form of social media I can think of that is non-digital and interactive.
LETTERS! In fact, people write to little to eachother. And with too little I mean NEVER. Why don't they do that? It is so much fun to receive a handwritten letter from friends, or your partner or family. In fact, I'm going to write my best friends a letter very soon! But not too soon, because when they read this they will expect it.
The moral of this story: write your best friend a letter to tell them how much you appreciate him or her. It will make you feel so good!
(Or you can just chop wood...)
vrijdag 12 maart 2010
Cell Phones
There are two types of people.
1. People who want a phone to call other people.
2. People who want not JUST a phone, but the most recent version of a type they bought two weeks ago.
Are you feeling adressed by the second type? A generalization of your type would be 'type two are people that want the newest gadgets and don't know what to do with them'.
I'm sure that is not applicable to you.
It is funny though, how the development of gadgets rides right past the time we need to create these new skills we need to use the gadgets. BUT! They sure look cool! The best thing about these gadgets is you showing them to others and say: "Yes, I know, you don't really need it... but look at this. I can do this, this and that. In theory. You can't do that? Aw, too bad..."
I love it.
1. People who want a phone to call other people.
2. People who want not JUST a phone, but the most recent version of a type they bought two weeks ago.
Are you feeling adressed by the second type? A generalization of your type would be 'type two are people that want the newest gadgets and don't know what to do with them'.
I'm sure that is not applicable to you.
It is funny though, how the development of gadgets rides right past the time we need to create these new skills we need to use the gadgets. BUT! They sure look cool! The best thing about these gadgets is you showing them to others and say: "Yes, I know, you don't really need it... but look at this. I can do this, this and that. In theory. You can't do that? Aw, too bad..."
I love it.
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