The product is you
Hi products! This is Lenka speaking, from the Bristol shelf right now. Nice mall outside, huh? How are the ads today? Is everything all right? What about your ma, neighbor, did she buy the pill? That’s great, the placebo always makes us feel good. Oh yeah, mushrooms are good, too, dude. Blah, you’re boring products, I guess I am gonna click on the other webpage to see some more of you.
I recently moved for three months to Bristol from Slovakia and except some major changes outside, like weather, people, the way of life, something else have changed. The ads in my Mac while I am surfing the net. I don’t remember the ones that occurred while I was at home in Slovakia. I just know they never worked for me cuz I was never interested. Probably there’s a bad team of a-holes that help the system to put the right ads. In Bristol area, the ads occur precisely to get my attention. I googled top-up mobile services on my first day here and voila… most of my ads now are coming from Orange, O2, Vodafone…etc to top up my credit.
The other kinds of ads are about iPhone. I won them for free on every single page. Thanks! I already own like 10, then. I don’t take it personally, though. The whole world is super-crazy about iPhones, me included. Although I am more for iPod Touch and I am certainly gonna buy it soon. The product is me, after all.
There are millions of products of us. We are quite a sell-outs. We specify our selling details on Facebooks, Myspaces and other questionnaire-like webpages and waiting to be sold. Or else to be added by another user and then by another and by another. We specify, add applications, put photoshoped photos of us as a product that never quite look the same as us in real lives and always waiting to be sold.
And while we cheaply sell ourselves this way, the sellers sell additional products to us on the internet, reminding us on every single page that we lack something important in our lives – the great product that they sell. With the product we will feel more worthwhile, happy, set and moreover – we will be a more interesting product to be sold to other products.
Let’s sell ourselves on our brilliant blogs, instead while spreading our emotions, ideas and observations. At least it is a much more expensive way.
Since iPhone hit the US market, I am really anticipate to experience that phone my own, but I couldn’t. The European launch also had and there are many people have get together to buy that phone. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get touch with touch iPhone as I am living in Asia. But I hope to buy one when iPhone avaiable in our country later this year.
You’re correct. If we can imagine a world with new tech or tools, where we can give some hopes to people to invest with us to empower the lives of millions. The ideas we hold within ourself are the treasure that can help us to come up with innovative products, like Steve Jobs doing.
We can produce products with our ideas and sell them to people who look for it. I believe that everyone has the ability to tell and persuade people with innovative and stuff and thoughts. That’s what the future deserve from us.
Nice thought. Keep posting.
Best smile,
Zeezat
(hi product!) hahaha… so we are the product? sounds like a joke, but
its real. i read some posts of you, and those make me thinking lot of thing and give me some inspiration to write. stupid newbie like me need many cheerful people like you to fill my brain with ‘indie opinion’, cause i’m stuck!
i even dont know how to leave or put a link! awful…
-herliando / ando (need someone to fix my stupid blog… bingmobile.wordpress.com)
Thanks for lovely comments Ando :) You’ll certainly reveal the secrets of blogging very soon :) Just keep up trying :)
This post was kind of joke. Bit of sarcastic/ironic picture of the reality I see. :)
I checked your blog, looking forward to your posts :) You’ll fix everything easily yourself, just play with your dashboard settings :) It’s really easy :)
Thanks Zeezat for the comment :) iPhone is not available in my country, too. But now being in England, everybody is crazy about it :)
thanks lenka.
i will try it soon. dont laugh me if i tell you that was my first comment on blog, haha… i never really involved to any blog, just checked what people write, and see what other people comment. … hey, i havent left your blog!
lots of treasures here make me forget my own blog… :-)
-ando
I am really flattered then :) Thanks :))
Ms. Bliss, welcome to the sprawling, boogie-down metropolis that is Bristol.
I like the ‘product’ idea, and when I think about the whole concept I realise just how true it is.
Another in a long list of classy posts. I salute you :)
thanks :)) nice description of Bristol :D
lenka, check my blog. just a little posting, better than nothing.
-bingmobile.wordpress.com -hit me! ;-)
hey..!
This is cute…thankyou again. I think it was HG Wells who said: “Advertising is the rattling of a stick in a swill bucket.”