The Skittles effect
I have been resisting to sign up for Facebook and My Space so far. When some of my friends invited me to join, I either quietly ignored those messages or told them those are not professional enough as LinkedIn. Well, I am going to do it. Why? well, I am afraid, it is true, social media is going to be the media of the future.
What triggered this change of mind?
Thanks to the fellow tweeter, elizabrooks who pointed out the social media based site of Skittles, in her new blog. I have never been to Skittles site before so I don’t know how it looked like earlier. What they have now is unbelievable and sort of crazy! Their home page is a Facebook page. Chatter page is the Twitter page. The products drop down menu items will take you to Wikipedia pages. The Media menu items? you guessed it right, YouTube and Flikr.
What do you think about the Skittles site? Do you have presence in Facebook, My Space, Orkut, Twitter, and the like?
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By Keith, March 4, 2009 @ 10:03 am
Manoj, While I am on Linked-In and Facebook the former for professional contacts and the latter for sharing family news and pictures with our extended family now with a branch in France, I don’t see much use in Twitter, etc. Brian Willams on the DailyShow commented that the default subject line is “what are you doing right now?” and mostly the answers are very trivial and I sincerely doubt that anyone could be interested.
By Sam, March 4, 2009 @ 9:53 pm
Manoj, I haven’t yet started using those sites except linked-in. Tried to test twitter couple months back; but could not find interesting. The new Skittles site seems like a marketing experiment,wait and see what difference it makes in their profits.
By Binu, March 5, 2009 @ 10:34 pm
I don’t have a Twitter account, never heard about it until now. Just had orkut in the beginning and that keeps me in touch with most of my friends in India/ Indian friends. I’d always resisted to get onto another website like that because I thought I cannot manage more than one. But I finally gave in around two weeks back to facebook. Facebook keeps me in touch with my colleagues, people from church etc., mainly American friends.