Polling Your Friends via Social Media
9:06 am in Internet Marketing Contributions by Ken Roberts
Life can be tough at times. With economic concerns, birth, death, and the great cycle of life constantly occurring it can be hard to get a solid breath of fresh air and think for a moment sometimes. When you are able to take that rare moment to step (just a few steps!) away from the wear-and-tear grind of getting your daily creature comforts just long enough to daydream and to think about the bigger questions, certain questions may leap to your mind: Will I have a stable retirement? Should I have any, or more children? Should I rent a house or apartment, or should I buy outright?
Thankfully, many of the logistical types of big questions about your life can be screened to more or less of a degree by the consensus the world wide web offers. Through the world wide web an individual can get the necessary feedback, when they need it, from a truly enormous audience . If an individual has a very large Facebook network, for example, they can pose questions to the large list they’ve accumulated for facts relevant to their city, for just one example.
Let’s say that you’ve made the commitment to start living life in a healthier way. Nice choice! What habits might you need to adjust to accomplish that end goal? Making new dietary choices is one example. One simple way to do that is to dine on nutrient-rich organic foods. You could pose the question to your facebook list, which very likely consists of people you have met in your vicinity, and ask them where the local organic farmers sell their food. In like fashion, if you were to look for a new workout partner you could also use facebook to rapidly (almost too rapidly!) poll your real-life friends and find out who might be up to holding you accountable to that New Years resolution you made.
The net offers another incredible service to answering the questions in this life: Google! Google is the largest database of all of human knowledge to have ever existed since time began, and it is free for you to use through capitalism’s ingenious invention of advertising.
Of course, leveraging the enormous amount of information out there within your social network to reach decisions rapidly is hardly new as a technique to mankind, and in fact, perhaps the reason social media websites have done so well is because they tap into drives that have always existed in us. However, what is new about our current era is this: with the advent of newer smartphones like the iPhone there is the possibility for instant inter-connectivity with the entire sum of your social network. Instead of talking to merely one person at a time, you can leverage your entire network (assuming you’ve friended them) all at single time via a convenient status update. So next time you have one of those big questions like where to get the cheapest groceries or what church to attend, hop on facebook and pose the question to your audience.
Thanks for taking a moment to read this article. If you’ve got a moment please also take a moment to view: Pool Cue Tips, and Shaft.