3.006: You are more influential than you think

Here's an interesting social media experiment.

With nothing more than that as a tease, I ask that you click this link: http://fcinf.com/v/cbxd.

(the link is safe, I assure you)

 

technorati tags: social media,influence,experiment

Comments

[Alan]

Well, I'm one of the +1s on your influence count, but I'm very unimpressed at you wasting my time/cluttering up feed readers to better measure your ego. I'd suggest sticking to hitcounters or feedburner numbers in future, but from this point I'm afraid I won't be contributing to either of those numbers.

[Mike Gallo]

Unsubscribe!

Did your password get compromised? Have not felt so violated since I found a tick 36 hours after a camping trip.

Thanks for all the insight, but WTF???

[the storage anarchist]

Alan, Mike -

My apologies if you were offended - I posted this purely as an experiement in social media. I don't really care what the results are, but it is interested to see if people will click a "trusted link" without knowing what it is.

Again, my apologies.

[Mike Gallo]

You and several other bloggers *had* a lot of trust. At least from a spam / malware risk perspective. A few more stunts like that and you all will just be part of the innerwebz. Not to be trusted. I do 95% of my reading on my iPhone. So not too worried about viruses. Yet. But do not appreciate my time being wasted.

Social media experiments = irritating.

Clearly as this is my second post on this. I do have time to be wasted. :-)

[the storage anarchist]

Point taken!

[David666]

Wow, people, relax!

The link was safe, as Barry promised, and the worst that could happen was that you wasted two seconds of your time that could have been invested in more productive ways (like, writing a long comment explaining how annoyed you are by wasting those precious two seconds.)

The idea is pretty cool, the graphics behind the site is impressive, and for a social media joke/tease this is pretty neat and provocative.

I bet though that a forthcoming GreenPlum blog will be much more interesting. Barry, you're not going to leave all of this juicy plum to Chuck, right?