Archive for ◊ March, 2011 ◊

Be my friend and you can share my toys

Remember when you were a kid and the other kids on the playground would say things like “if you be my friend, I’ll let you play with my new toy?”  Or perhaps, “if you give me some of your dessert I’ll be your friend.” It’s just what kids do, and most of us grow out of that.  Or, at least I thought we did.

A growing trend in social media is to lure people to “like” or “follow” companies, products or brands by giving them something they want; a t-shirt, sticker, hair-care products or some other equally useless awesome “stuff”.  OK, that’s cool, everybody wins, sort of.

It’s a disaster, not daycare.

However, I think a line has been crossed.  While I and many other tech-minded people were at SXSW, a terrible disaster took place in Japan.  more…