Comments on: Is Anyone Listening to Social Media Anymore?

By: Wend Cooper

Wend Cooper — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:11:58 +0000

Engage, Engage, and then Engage some more. Is this not the advertising mantra of 2009? Well perhaps there is a fine line of engagement. Who will be the one to find it before it’s too late and we’ve all been fully engaged to the point we just tune it All out? Twitter – I have an address just never have found the time nor the value in all that “junk” and then when CNN started its Twitter thing – oh vey – forget about it. FB – good concept – turned way to targeted and commercial – just change your status and watch the ads change. You can go from “Depression Kills” to “Hot Sexy Partners” within seconds.

I mean I get it, consumer engagement has been my biz for 20 years…but it’s overkill now as it’s not about striking the emotional cord – it’s about inundation – overkill – it just becomes something else to tune out – more clutter in the brain – just something to delete – so are we engaging more – or self destructing this incredible platform for engagement by over saturation of meaningless crud – albeit within it a sometimes small spark of intelligence..

Who the heck has the time for all this conversation….?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:49:51 +0000

@John

touche… 😉

@Andre

I definitely hear you on Twitter. If people follow me, I always usually try to say something to them to get to know them better if I follow them back, etc. And rarely, rarely is it that I get a response or anything. But I keep doing it…I guess I just like getting to know people and being a social-Twitter-fly. =)

By: John Koetsier

John Koetsier — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:45:23 +0000

Good question. Now what was it that you were talking about?

🙂

By: Andre Blackman

Andre Blackman — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:52:14 +0000

You hit the nail on the head here Alex and it’s something I’ve been thinking about for the past few weeks as my Twitter following has increased quite a bit. As I check into see who is actually following me and then in the next few days I don’t hear anything from them. Geoff points out another thing regarding “twitterpacks” – where I do find that there is value in finding other like minded individuals, I often times get people who are selling a health food product. Not really interested in that. All the tools that are sprouting up to aggregate tweets into comfortable, market-research chunks are kind of getting on my nerves. Ah well, so long to the naive and tight knit days of Twitter. Just have to make more of an effort to stay connected with those you want to.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:14:11 +0000

@Joseph Honored by your visit, and I’m glad I could be a good nugget. I also appreciate your optimism regarding our information flow. But oh how part of me misses the good ole’ days… lol

By: Joseph Jaffe

Joseph Jaffe — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:06:55 +0000

Great food for thought.

Ironically, I would not have stumbled upon this post if not for your tweet which in of itself was very serendipitous in nature i.e. random view of my current stream of 7,000+ followers which update/scroll so quickly that it’s virtually impossible to get anything but an occasional glance (and in this case, the valuable insight/nugget)

I guess I’ve just learned how to find order from chaos which is resignation that my information flow will always be random and opportunistic 🙂