Have you ever had the feeling that something is about to change? You know, like when fall turns to winter? I am getting the feeling that is what is about to happen with the Internet…going into a nuclear winter.
Why? Have you seen how many social networking sites that are starting up, falling apart or just generally sucking air? Have you seen how many ads are being placed on every site online? Have you every seen the concentration of questionably businesses?
BRRRR..feel that chill?
Cuts through your like fifty rapid firing Spam emails you get just before a BLUE SCREEN. Cuts to the bone,doesn’t it?
It is kinda getting pathetic with more and more people jumping on the train to nowhere by offering yet another social or business networking site that sucks. Now that people know I go in and look at these sites searching for the best sites for my clients to join, the founders and developers of many start-up sites now come to me to get my opinion. I thank them for that and yes, I do have input on what is needed and what is being looked at by offline business people who really have money and want to come online to spend it and make it. But these are very smart people, mostly professionals who do not want to be involved with anything that turns into a cesspool full of spammers and contact leaches. These are people with enough intelligence to hire me to go into the slaughter houses called social/business networking groups for them and take the licking they would get if they joined those sites. Yep, they are smart and know how being associated with the SEO’s and mega group sites is not a very professional environment to be in and is professional damaging to anyone’s professional image. But they also know that there are oasis’s in the internet where they belong, but where? That is what I am trying to find. I am kinda the Indiana Jones of the internet looking for something and having to deal with all kind of crap to find it.
These offline professional don’t want to hear from evangelical representatives of worthless sites or hear about how an online identity that has an illusive or veiled business plan can be of benefit to them. They don’t want to be offered to attend a Mary Kay gathering online.
Nope, they want to do straight up business with people who are online that more than like really need their services, like the evangelical bloggers and nutritional juices distributors whom they could offer an outlook of where to go to get REAL jobs they can work at that provides more stability to the real world’s economy.
There, that feeling you just got from finding out that there are real people with real money and real constructive business out there is what I am talking about. That is the feeling of change coming. Kinda makes you shiver thinking about how things are getting out hand here in Lala-land.
Yes, the winds of change are blowing and it will be just a matter of time before the advertisers who are paying those social and business networking sites big bucks figure out their investments are not paying off. Once that happens, the House of Cards effect takes affect and the change will have to then be made to recreate the Internet to be more of a safe place to go instead of it being like walking down a carnival midway.
Feel it changing? It is coming…
Is This Really ALL Worth It? 