On April Fool’s Day, one tends to be wary of news. Elliott Masie’s newsletter, Learning TRENDS, reported on “Friends-R-Us: Outsourcing Friends and Social Media”. Elliott’s announcement:
As professionals and large organizations consider the appropriate use of social media, a new industry has started to provide outsourced assistance. We were recently contacted by the CEO of an about to be launched company, Friends-R-Us’. They will offer several key services:
o Managing Your Facebook or LinkedIn Account: For busy professionals, they will go in every day and provide interesting stories, updates and make up engaging tidbits to provide you with a great presence online. They will also accept your friends and more. For extra fees, they will Twitter on your behalf every day, hour or with the Gold Plan, every 15 minutes.
o Leasing ‘Friends’: Some senior executives are quite worried that they won’t have enough friends showing on their accounts or following them on Twitter. This group will lease you ‘Friends’ in blocks of 50. You can define the demographics or region of these friends.
The CEO of Friends-R-Us was quite interested in expanding their services to support Social Learning and has considered starting a division to outsource learner’s collaborative assignments in online education processes.
When Donald Trump started a blog, my vision was that he would write an idea on a scrap of paper, toss it, and one of many underlings hovering nearby would write a post for him. If this new company isn’t a joke, then it will provide instant popularity. But doesn’t that seem counter to the whole point of social media?
This can only be an April fool’s. Else it would mark the beginning of the end of social media.
That someone got such an idea, I think is brilliant but that someone would pay for this, I think this is completely stupid and would only show how desperate people could be when it comes to being popular.
Once again, it can only be an April fool’s.
Social media requires an internal commitment from your organization. A social media strategy simply won
Many businesses use social media to market their products and services. Unfortunately, some of these business seem to be to busy to maintain their social networking sites, rendering them useless as marketing tools. Paying someone to update your social networking site will assure you that your site’s visitors will always be kept in the look about what’s new with your company.
This is nice and will surely help us bloggers in some ways. However, it is just impossible for this to be real. Yeah, they have some point, actually their ideas is amazing. Unfortunately, what will be the effect of this to social media and to our careers as a blogger? For sure, in every ideas which seems so perfect, their is always a big possibility that it has some risk and various consequence later on. Anyway, thank you for sharing. But, if this is true, still I won’t utilize. I am contented so far being not famous but yet effective in my own ways.
Kate
Blog: Coupe de cheveux homme