21 April 2007

Social networks and my psychographic profile

I recently joined Orkut, another online social networking site. BTW, Orkut is named after its creator Orkut Büyükkökten, and is owned by Google.

Suddenly realized that I am now a member of almost every social network out there on the net. This includes MySpace, Friendster, MyBlogLog, SpicyPage, among others. Not sure whether they can be called a social network, but I am also member of Flickr, YouTube, Textamerica and Yahoogroups.

My wife who's specialized in Marketing, tells me that I fall into the "Innovator" or "Thrill seeker" segment of the market. This refers to my Psychographic profile. The first ones to try out anything new.

So are you like me?

7 comments:

  1. adam.. did u really shave your head??

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  2. Yes I did. Check out my pic in my post here:
    http://ok-lah.blogspot.com/2007/04/baldie-dad.html

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  3. I'm a thrill seeker as long as it doesn't involve any actual danger :)

    Anyway, do you use any of the social networks to increase traffic to your blog? And if so, is it working?

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  4. i don't really like social network atlthough i am in a few. most of them i'm in but then i never do anything about it - just signed up as member.

    next adam, you should tell us how many ads you have. :)

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  5. i joined orkut last year but .. join aje la .. didnt do anything much.

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  6. Phil: I think joining online social networks are quite safe unless you happen to antagonise a crazy lunatic.

    Lucia: You definitely fall in the follower or play safe segment.

    A lot of ads ;)

    Merapuman: I only joined recently and so far I have only 3 friends on it.

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  7. Phil: Forgot to answer your 2nd question.

    Yes. That is one of my objectives and I think it has worked. Get a lot of new visitors coming over to my blog through the networks.

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