[LINK] social media not a business medium

[Richard Chirgwin]

Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 25/02/2009, at 5:07 AM, stephen at melbpc.org.au quoted some lame  
> report:
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>> Facebook and other social technologies were supposed to help  
>> business-to-
>> business marketers more effectively influence their customers'  
>> purchasing
>> decisions.
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> Was it? Good heavens, everything I understood about social media was  
> in terms of people connecting with people, to enrich their own  
> experiences etc. My mistake. It's about business marketing to  
> business. Silly me. I guess my friends wanting me to look at the  
> pictures from their Bali holiday on Facebook are really trying to  
> conduct business marketing. I am so stupid.
>
> Stil 
>   
Not stupid, just naive. Interpersonal communications only exist so that
governments can snoop on them, marketers can invade them, and idiots can
comment on them. That set thing straight? :-)

RC
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