march 2008

It's not technically an illegal scam, but I think it's a legal scam - which is really sad.

I went to a seminar and they had a little segment on internet marketing. So, being in this industry I was really intrigued. But the more the presenter gave his speech, the more I became disillusioned and wanted to yell out not to buy his products. His product is basically to teach people how to use Blogger to make money, and he and his company provides support for it. The examples he gave were of those pay per post type schemes. The product costs a few thousand dollars to be part of it.

Sometimes I wish those kinds of people who give internet marketing a bad name would just go away. People don't need to be ripped off, they are there to get some real help for their business!

On Sunday night, I went out with a friend and two of her friends and for some reason we ended up talking about online social networks. My friend said that she's not on Facebook and doesn't see the need to as Friendster already has all the things that Facebook has like applications and stuff.

The girl sitting next to me was telling me that she has accounts on both Friendster and Facebook, but uses them for entirely different reasons. She sees Facebook as more formal, to see who is friends with whom. She uses Friendster for all her friends and other random contacts, and puts up photos of herself and her friends at parties and other things. Apparently she is friends with Government Minister's kids, so they think that Friendster is more safe than Facebook to put photos they don't want to be found on the internet.

I just wonder how many other people keep their lives 'separate' on the different social networks that aren't specifically eg for making business contacts like LinkedIn. Is this a common phenomenon?