Is it me, or is anyone else noticing a high level of sales / corporate presence on the internet in anonymous venues?
I can be a bit paranoid at times, but this is something I've sort of been questioning for a few months now, a little over a year.
It is clear that police and government spend hefty amount of time on social network sites these days, as that is now a part of thier job descriptions. In terms of corporate presence, are customer support teams, marketing teams and others spending the majority of thier time working social media venues and are they doing so at an anonymous level?
No conspiracy, technically it is the law that a law enforcement officer reveal who they are in public, how has this changed with the web and anonymous venues?
Same carries through to corporate shillery.
Back track a decade and most law enforcement, corporate entities, and so on, were simply computer illiterate, but social media venues, particularly the giants have changed that and made the barrier to entry less abrasive.
Even china boasts proudly that they have entire law enforcement divisions dedicated to monitoring and participating in social media venues.
3 or 4 years ago, troll hunting and "real names" were the norm, that however has abruptly started to change.
I might as well say that I first noticed in a venue where products were primarily discussed. Eventually it was overrun by people who were selling those products, and quite frankly those same people tended to lie about the products. There was no revelation as to the persons identity, however there was shillery in the sense that false credentials were provided in the name. Example. DrShill, who is selling OTC drugs. However because these newer venues which are exploding have no real means to verify an identity it is accepted that everyone remain anoymous, and eventually people are able to work that angle to their advantages. They work their way into good status with the mods, they essentially own a division of the web. (high school kids and work at home moms aren't the most commercially aware mods)
You're all sociopaths here. You should all know this.
What? That mobile apps, starbucks barristers, and QR codes are not keys to a better life?
http://www.statista.com/statistics/276623/number-of-apps-available-in-leading-app-stores/
This statistic contains data on the number of apps available for download in leading app stores in July 2014. As of that month, Android users were able to choose between 1.3 million apps. Apple's App Store remained the second-largest app store with 1.2 million available apps.
On average only 14% of users stuck around a day after downloading an app. That is less than one in seven users. Those are abysmal rates by any measure.
http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/qr-codes-dead
But I'll be honest here: I've never scanned a QR code in my entire life, and I'm pretty tech-savvy. I can't even recall watching a friend scan a QR code, either. But I realize I'm a sample size of one, and I've heard people argue -- marketers especially -- that QR codes are still alive and well. I found myself thinking, could that even be possible?
http://www.caffecultureshow.com/library/Starbucks-moves-towards-self-serve-vended-coffee
Starbucks moves towards self-serve vended coffee
In what has been an extremely active month for Starbucks, it has won a great deal of attention in the general retail world by launching the first of ‘thousands’ of coffee vending machines in the UK. The move has generally been seen as a response, if perhaps a slightly delayed one, to Costa’s recent work in rapidly expanding its Costa Express self-serve machines.
