i want nobody but YOU..

I want nobody but YOU…

I want nobody nobody but YOU..

Last Saturday, while I was on my way to school the song “Nobody” by Wonder Girls caught me. From the moment I stepped out from the FX until I opened our classroom door, I was humming the song. “I want nobody but YOU”. Hmm.. I feel like some how everyone has tried to say that line. And that thought further augmented as Mr Paulo Pangan from Yehey Corporation started his lecture about viral marketing.

It seems that everyone wants to give significance to another individual, or wants to be “connected” somehow. With the revolutionized Internet, there had been shift in views:

FROM => TO

Passive Active

Macro Micro

Static Live

Dictation Conversation

Promises Actions

Formal Informal

With the change and birth of social networking sites such as Friendster, Myspace, Multiply, Facebook, Twitter, and Plurk people found new avenues to generate more personal relationships with other people. An instance would be when President Barack Obama created accounts in different social networking sites to acquire online presence. And now the aspiring candidates for the May 2010 election are now utilizing the power of social networking sites to reach their market which is primarily the youth.

Candidates or famous people were not the only ones trying to market themselves through social networking sites; we also do. We join different social networking sites to get in touch with friends, classmates, groups, and even relatives. We somehow sell ourselves by adding other people, or when they actually invited us. Somehow, underneath our mindset, we want to be connected or to be part of them–just like how commodities bond with people’s lifestyle. We are both considered as a good and a consumer. We’re invited or added by other people when they think were important or special to them, and we follow or invite other people when they have hooked us. And from there, you continue to accept and add more people; excited to gather more “selected friends”.