Can Social Media Help Unemployment?
Last week, I read that article about searchers developing a new type of software that would soon be able to write news on its own. Short articles about what’s going on in the world could very soon be written by computers. It’s crazy to think that maybe in a near future, while looking for the author of the article you’re reading, you’ll see something like Software EX566…
And it is no isolated case. Right now, it seems like everywhere, we are dealing more and more with automatic voicemails. In order to spare money, companies are using more and more machines. And i’m not even talking about the industry. The intervention of the man happens more and more lately in the creation process. I’m not saying it is always a shame – regarding the industry for instance, no one wants go back to Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times movie. But regarding reservations and stuff like customer services, I know I wish I could deal with a real person most of the time. That’s why I think Apple Stores are the greatest invention.
Well with social media it is different. People want to communicate and if brands want to make the most of all of these conversations, they must hire someone to listen to their customers and to share with them.
So we should all hope social media continue their incredible growth because after all it might be a great new source of hiring as anything relating to social media is based on being human and to be honest, that’s good news…
Humans are back in the game!!!
Hey Alex,
Funny you see this side of the story – the macro economical one- because to a micro economical point of view, social media can also be very efficient to deal with unemployment.
The corporate world lacks people who are knowledgage in social media (see link), and all of us, the Y generation, have at least good notions of these tools from a user perspective. And truth is that many CMOs I met are either paying consultants to learn even these user-sided notions or hiring people who have them! Thats a huge opportunity for all Y generation under grad and even graduates!
TimDL
April 26, 2010 at 10:25 pm