The Insomniac Coder

How Pee Helps Us Understand Social Media The biggest problem I am having with this whole social media freakout is companies freaking out about it. People, on the other hand, are doing exactly what was expected with these new technologies. The problem with the companies is that they are too willing to shell out money to snake oil peddlers calling themselves social media experts, who are then tasked with shaping their "social media strategy." 99% of the time this means adding a  Facebook  group, a Twitter account, buttons to follow twitter and friend on Facebook on the corporate site, and telling everyone in the company to sign up for a LinkedIn account. When you go to their website, there's a link that says that they are on Facebook. When you visit their Facebook page, it is empty except for links back to the site, and a bunch of useless drivel, wall posts, like messages, etc. When you go to their Twitter, all you see is a bunch of regurgitated content ...

Dilbert comic strip for 02/10/2011 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive. Those out of my industry may think OMG FACEBOOK SUX LOL!!!! Those that us that program for the web went FFS NOT AGAIN! And please, don't start about how we (and Scott) are overreacting about Facebook . The problem isn't really Facebook, the problem is everyone else. Why? Facebook is making obscene amounts of dough by keeping captive audiences that for most part don't spent money except for example game credits and that kind of thing. They then turn around and get what is probably even more money from dumbass advertisers that are terrified of missing out on this captive audience. Image via CrunchBase While I am concerned that Ivette is a degenerate Facebook addict that plays stupid games that I can't figure out their appeal, it is no different than the time *I* spend playing video games that Ivette sees as stupid and SHE can't figure out their appeal. If people want to spent mo...