Am I partaking in guilt or pleasure when it comes to construed online offers? Well reading the article "61% of Online Shoppers Would Trade Privacy for Personalization [INFOGRAPHIC]" from Mashable.com has brought to my attention the affects and effects to being an online consumer.
I'm currently an addict for online shopping ever since moving to Chicago. Online shopping provides convenience. My current favorite online store is eBay, since being a regular customer, eBay has been notifying me with daily deals and suggestions for my next purchase. Although, it's gotten to the point where its getting annoying yet appealing at the same time. My shopping privacy seems to be invaded on an obnoxious level. On the other hand, I can tolerate the obnoxiousness due to the article. I agreed with most of the reasons that were pointed in the article and therefor I'm guilty on having personalization rather than privacy. The bottom line with personalization is simply to say that as an online consumer, I have basic terms in which a business deal should accommodate to in trade-off for my personal information.
The only reason why I don't bother searching myself on Goggle is because its hard to keep up with myself in the real world in the first place. In that sense, I never took the initiative to be in tune with myself on the internet. Being cyber-connected really hasn't made an impression on me until I graduated high school. Although, I probably should of been more careful on what I want to display from then to now since it's being open to the public on the internet. My results aren't so bold but I do have an account I wish would erase. So what were my results?
1. My Facebook Account, just as common for everyone. My confession about Facebook: I never intended in having one but I was convinced by my cousin into signing up for one strictly to stay connected with people who truly matter, mostly family members. I signed up in 2011. My main intention for this account is to stay connected with my family in Hawaii and in the Philippines. Along the years though I've accumulated friends from high school.
2. My LinkedIn account, I signed up for it on this year (2014) in May after being settled in from moving from Minneapolis, MN to here, Chicago, IL. I'm still new to this account and haven't updated it with a resume yet. I haven't used this social network tool to my greatest advantage but being from Minnesota then living in Chicago, it's still an adjustment so it's absolutely a work in progress. I would love to connect with classmates from the Roosevelt University so connect with me!
3. My Pinterest account, I signed up for it last year in 2013, during the winter time just for fun. I purely go on it to look for creative ideas. I'm not on it daily but when I am on it, it offers amazing broad range of ideas like cooking recipes and interior designs that I find interesting.
3. My Twitter account, (lastly) inactive social network account, I have to explain myself. I signed up for a Twitter account because of the hype that it was causing. Not only because of that but when I started college almost 5 years ago, I was bored and since not interested on Facebook that time, I opted for Twitter. I joined not being fully aware of the purpose and after having it for a month I stopped using it. Long story short, I no longer can access it anymore and now it's going to forever be on the internet.
Overall the search of myself on Google is pretty basic, displaying mainly my social network accounts.
The Huffington Post is one of the top power bloggers in social media. Their blog site consists a wide range of topics in the media world. They provide original content in covering business, comedy, culture, environment, entertainment, healthy living, lifestyle, local news, politics, popular media, and technology. In that sense, I had to pick an article listed on their website. Overall, I'm going to give you my honest overview opinion on how The Huffington Post displays blog style and the formality of their content. The article that I've chosen and will be discussing about is the article on the latest popular news on the Iphone 6 features. For all the Apple brand consumers and lovers or Android users too, stay tune for some news and insight to consider.
On The Huffington Post website under Tech you'll be able to access the article titled as: The Iphone 6 Is Actually A lot Like A 2012 Android Phone. The reason why I choose this article was because the Iphone 6 product is the latest hot social topic going around. Many people are discussing about why we should buy it, so should I? Well I wanted to get more information to elaborate on before I make the switch of my Iphone 5s to the 6. Anyways, The Huffington Post gave me interesting information. Having to locate it on their site was as straight forward as can be by requesting the Tech topic that I was seeking for and from there gave me the option to pick the article at. Thanks to The Huffington Post blog website they display simple organization topic headers and truly formatting their pages to be displayed simply.
After picking the article the Iphone 6 Is Actually A lot Like A 2012 Android Phone, then reading the article, it gave me even more interesting views/concept on the Iphone 6. Just like how the title is posted, the Iphone 6 features aren't as impressive to be as I thought (this is speaking from someone who isn't a tech fanatic/geek/shrewd). I'm not going to get into the details of the content of the article because it would be too long so long story short, in my conclusion, I'll be keeping my Iphone 5s since there is no need in upgrading. If you want to know my reasons behind why, you can catch up on that article itself to better understand and decide for yourself. Keep in mind the content of the article covers valid comparisons between the Nexus 4 and Iphone 6. There's even a picture to show you results, which I found useful and justified my reason for why I have no desire to upgrade to the Iphone 6.
Another format displayed on the article page that I took noticed besides the pictures covered in the content, was the links such as Facebook likes, Facebook share, Twitter, Linkedin, and Pinterest (for the photos) that are connected within the article. The Huffington Post reports all those interacted connections in a great effective manner. The following article has 6k Facebook likes, 11,690 Facebook share, and 342 tweets. Clearly that shows that this article has meaningful content, for I enjoyed it.
If the article post from The Huffington Post doesn't appeal to your views on the Iphone 6, give me your opinion on why not, plus a different kind of blog website and article to compare with. So far I'm taking in consideration with the information given by The Huffington Post's post. To obtain The Iphone 6 Is Actually A Lot Like A 2012 Android Phone article download their app for easy accessibility or else go to their website, www.thehuffingtonpost.com.
