1. What does Social Media accomplish that other media does not?
2. Who benefits from Social Media?
3. How does Social Media compensate participants for their contributions?
4. What compensation might these participants expect for their contributions elsewhere?
5. What compensation might these participants require before they are willing to contribute to any media?
6. How does Social Media compensate participants for being an attentive audience?
7. What might these participants expect for being attentive to other media?
8. What compensation might these participants require before they are willing to be attentive to any media?
9. What is the signal-to-noise ratio in Social Media?
10. How does one increase the signal-to-noise ratio in Social Media?
Applying a few of my questions reflectively, my benefit in posting this comment is in getting those involved in this nascent industry to actually pay me for my witty analysis with sufficient remuneration so that I can fire off a post or comment every day or so from my beach house in the tropics and still pay for my children's education.
Failing that, I will keep to my current plan of publishing the best poetry since Shakespeare. [note to marketing staff: Did I hype that enough or was it over the top?]
While you are working on these questions, I'll just slip out to enjoy my Pina Colada. I so love them with the fresh pineapple and coconut.
Regards,
Carl Peter Klapper
