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November 16, 2014

Pay for clothes using your social network clout…

Filed under: My Thoughts — Suramya @ 10:38 PM

Finally the day a lot of people have been waiting for has arrived. Now you can pay for actual physical clothes using your social network clout. What does that mean? Basically if you are buying stuff at OnePiece’s pop-up store in New York City anytime before the 17th of Nov you will get $1 off for every 500 followers you have across social networks. Which would give me just about $0.50 discount if I ever shopped there 🙂

As nice as Klout’s perks can be, they’re infrequent and sometimes have arcane rules. Wouldn’t it be better if you could simply translate your social networking status into cash? OnePiece’s pop-up store in New York City is letting you do just that. Swing by 577 Broadway no later than November 17th and the clothing shop will give you a $1 discount for every 500 followers you have across common social networks, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. While you’re capped at $500 (Hollywood A-listers need not apply), that’s more than enough to score some fresh threads for free. Yes, it’s a publicity grab — but it’s also a genuinely good deal if you’ve spent years cultivating an online following.

I get a ton of ‘friend’ requests on a fairly regular basis but usually I reject most of them outright. For me the only folks in my friend list are folks that I consider friends (apart from a few authors that I want to keep in touch with) and have an interest in keeping up with. This does not include folks I don’t know, just because you are a friend of a friend doesn’t mean we should become friends on FB if we have never met. Or if I took your interview for a job doesn’t mean that it is ok to add me as a friend on Facebook (Yes, this actually happened). For some reason, this small concept seems to be very hard for people to understand. People use the no of friends/followers as a sort of measuring stick for their popularity and if you don’t have many followers then in their mind you are not important enough.

I rarely sign on to my Facebook account and I have posted some 3-4 tweets from my twitter account since I started it a few years ago (those were to complain to Airtel). I am sure if I start becoming active on the network I can easily increase the no of friends I have many fold. But what’s the point?

Anyways, enough ranting about Social media for today. I am going to go finish my book and then crash for the night. Will post more later.

– Suramya

Source: Engadget.com

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