Hello World (Yea, I think this is how I will start off my posts!),
Well I am already not doing so well with blogging. I missed last weeks deadline so I am in the hole. Hopefully I will be able to make it up! I am going to blame it on jet lag. My mind has been extremely fuzzy since returning from a wonderful trip to Asia. I have traveled abroad before and it has never hit me as hard as it did while I was in Asia, and that first week was very hard on me to get back to normal. I am not sure why, but maybe it has something to do with crossing over all of those time zones. I digress...on with the social media blogging.
Since we had our first class I have been more aware than normal of marketers attempts at getting me mention them in my social media posts. As I said before I am not really the type to mention things in my social media posts unless it stirs up something inside of me. I am also trying to be more responsible of my posting due to all the implications posting can have on your career etc., which is kind of sad. But hey, it's the reality. As I am exploring websites, shopping, etc. on the net I am now noticing all of the "like us on Facebook" or on Facebook I notice all of the advertisements on the right hand side of the screen or all of the sponsored by ad's popping up in my news feed. I have to say that before it really bothered me to see all of that, but now I reason it away by saying "Hey, this application is free to me so FB has to make it's money somehow." But it still isn't causing me to mention the company, product or service in my posts. So how will social media marketers reach me? I think it will be through things like playing a game (Colgate Wisp game on FB) or by my reading an article that is linked through FB or LinkedIn and those sites adding something to my newsfeed saying I read an article or whatever. But as far as me directly going on social media and mentioning a product, service, etc...I deeply doubt if that happens!
With all that being said, I do believe that somehow I am being reached and I just don't realize it. It will be interesting to hear more about the tactics used by marketers to reach people like me...I am sure I will discover that I have been reached and just didn't know it!
Hey Hermondra!
ReplyDeleteI feel like I am starting to feel more aware of the constant blast of marketing that occurs every time I check my email, twitter or Facebook. Even when I log onto Google+ I see banner ads for Express clothing which is my weakness and clearly Google knows it. My Birthday was over the weekend and I was even receiving messages from Sephora asking me to like something on Facebook to redeem my free birthday gift. I am still trying to figure out when it became common place to ask someone to market on your behalf for a birthday gift. But it is all good and I understand that it is the name of the game...a game in which I am becoming more and more comfortable with because of this class!