Social Media is a Myth

@DaveMac
Touche' but, the point being made here is it IS a buzzword, a catch phrase. What you are using is the internet. More along the lines of Social Networking. Sharing Media by being Social. What he is saying is that "SOME" people claim to be experts. These "Experts" are not people who analyze trends but people who claim they can push and idea or product on the internet through use of Social Networking. Here is the problem with that. These people really have no clue. How many Top users of Digg, Mixx, Reddit are marketers? I personally run in that circle. I can tell you that these people are not marketers. They MYTH is people who are telling you this are the same people sucking the life out of their myth. "Make money from home by using Social Media". Please..if these guys actually had a clue as Greg puts it, why are they sharing the secret? Now the people who analyse these trends might work for a marketing company and work on the Internet image for a company. But it no way can you successfully market in the myth that is Social Media. ie sharing stories. (most people who do that get labeled as spammers and the community will not embrace them). Now if you are a company and you are buying ads in Social Networking or Social News sites, then yes money can be made there.

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- SilentJay74
A F'n men!
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- calinazaret
Wow, "pubic lice of the human species" that's harsh!
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- ih8mondays
"Social media"? What sort of commie nonsense are you talking about?!? ;)
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- DaveMac
I'm not sure I agree with the point of this article. Marketeers have been marketeer-ing for years and labelling anything they can to make it/themselves sellable, what they do isn't new. It doesn't make social media a myth.
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- nepspeed82
Marketers don't only rule internet, they also rule the products you're eating, the brands you use, and the shows you watch on tv. Every fabric of you is influenced by marketers even the music you listen to. If you hate marketers so much go live in the mountain and don't bother with everything civilization has to offer.

This news should be buried.
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- SilentJay74
@nepspeed82
You a marketer?
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- SilentJay74
@DaveMac
And the point of this is exactly what you are saying. These so called experts are the ones that are "Old Media" trying to dress up in "New Media" camo <---I didn't coin that saying by the way. That saying came from a New Media guru who knows what he is talking about. But that is beside the point. Point is that Marketers are hand feeding you their bullshit and you are buying into it. "Social Media" is a catch phrase, a slogan. Social Media is the Internet and articles and media there unto pertaining.
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- onreact.com
Evil marketers rule the world? I'm rather wit them than the military and CERN madmen who invented the Internet as preparation for a nuclear war. The CERN madmen want to blow the planet aka "big bang" with their latest invention, their collider:
http://www.mixx.com/stories/187523/try_this_headline_black_hole_eats_earth_international_herald_tribune
after that we won't have any media at all not even language. No planet no media.
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- Albionshores
Unless somewhere there is Planet Media.....
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- jansie
WHOOOHOOOO!!!! you go G!!! buzzword. marketing. that's it bud. it's funny you should open the post with 'call your ...', cos this is what life is about. connecting with those you know and love. sheesh, we need more of these posts.
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- DaveMac
@SilentJay74
Exactly, "Social Media" is a catch phrase, a slogan.... that everyone uses. It may not be 100% correct (or maybe its just misused), but people recognise it and use it. If it makes aggregated news, pictures, videos, commenting, networking etc. more accessible to people then I don't see a problem with it. Even the people commended in the article refer to themselves as "social media enthusiast[s]" (Tamar Weinberg).
It is just another label.. not a myth.
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- SilentJay74
@DaveMac
Touche' but, the point being made here is it IS a buzzword, a catch phrase. What you are using is the internet. More along the lines of Social Networking. Sharing Media by being Social. What he is saying is that "SOME" people claim to be experts. These "Experts" are not people who analyze trends but people who claim they can push and idea or product on the internet through use of Social Networking. Here is the problem with that. These people really have no clue. How many Top users of Digg, Mixx, Reddit are marketers? I personally run in that circle. I can tell you that these people are not marketers. They MYTH is people who are telling you this are the same people sucking the life out of their myth. "Make money from home by using Social Media". Please..if these guys actually had a clue as Greg puts it, why are they sharing the secret? Now the people who analyse these trends might work for a marketing company and work on the Internet image for a company. But it no way can you successfully market in the myth that is Social Media. ie sharing stories. (most people who do that get labeled as spammers and the community will not embrace them). Now if you are a company and you are buying ads in Social Networking or Social News sites, then yes money can be made there.
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- tomboys
Really great article. Has me thinking. Wel written and insightful.
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- finleymax
Its rocking information about social media.
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