new-look community page

[not_an_eloi]

'ere's  wot our community page will look like shortly

http://community.ebay.ca/

comments ?

[just_me_karen]

Cue, that's the main reason to have a community, these days. In the olden days it was about keeping people on the site - the longer they stayed, the more they'd spend. Westfield used that process too, which is why they installed food courts etc... I think it was $1.00 spent per minute.

These days it's more about social networking, encouraging members to share & discuss & build the brand. So I guess it's using members to advertise, but if not carefully managed it can go the other way. 

Ideally, they'd have moderators leading or guiding some discussions. 

[*mrgrizz*]

'ere's  wot our community page will look like shortly

http://community.ebay.ca/

comments ?

how do you know this

[cueperkins]

I don't want to be their product Karen, and there's so much advertising in your face these days all day and all night, it's getting OTT

I've wondered of late..... do we ever look at Capitalism as an economic model and wonder if there should be a line drawn as to how far they can go to herd us into one big corral? ...it's like having the Australia Card via stealth...they're linking everything up, and that bothers me.  Crikey, we wouldn't let our Govt do it, but anything goes in the name of capitalism?

I'm not a member of the big social media sites = just not interested in what the world is twittering about....all you hear these days is who said what on twitter, especially if they're media personalities...it's puddle jumping for the superficial and the news media lap it up.

Perhaps someone will come up with a more intelligent social network some day...I'm not buying into this commercial herding mentality....

[lightningdance]

Capitalism, this looks more like socialism to me, a socialist experiment, harmonizing everything so everybody  toes the line?.

[cherry*135]

"Yes they do, how exciting lolol maybe the cafe is where people can talk about nothing"

Or a porridge thread!

We already have one of those.:-)

[cherry*135]

I'm not a member of the big social media sites = just not interested in what the world is twittering about....all you hear these days is who said what on twitter, especially if they're media personalities...it's puddle jumping for the superficial and the news media lap it up.

I agree. Often now newspaper stories now quote facebook posts, twitter posts etc. Why do we even need newspapers if that what their stories are made up of?  We can find that stuff out ourselves from social media IF we choose to.

[tasfleur]

I agree with you Cue in post #22.  We don't bother with that kind of social media either preferring to be totally independent and not influenced by all the rot.

[izabsmiling]

Capitalism, this looks more like socialism to me, a socialist experiment, harmonizing everything so everybody  toes the line?.

Karen is right. I would buy more (or start again) if and when these boards reflect a better/friendlier environment .

Same principal as I wouldn't enter a shop if the store owner was abusive,threatening,sexist, racist,if I had unfair treatment  etc etc or if the store owner supports those attitudes .The same applies here imo.

[izabsmiling]

I agree with you Cue in post #22.  We don't bother with that kind of social media either preferring to be totally independent and not influenced by all the rot.

are you referring to these boards as being independent ?

[tasfleur]

No, I was referring to me personally preferring to be independent, sorry I didn't make it clearer ...  🙂