The term Social Influencer is starting to get truly annoying!

azazl187 · 21 Jun 2019 at 20:19

I've never heard of it

Freddie1980 · 21 Jun 2019 at 22:51

Social influencers, a self appointed title used by people to freeload on hotel stays, trips abroad and getting free stuff because you might post something about it on IG.

Tee Hee Johnson · 22 Jun 2019 at 02:08

azazl187 said:
I've never heard of it

You are cool.

MBennett · 22 Jun 2019 at 07:52

ttaskmaster said:
Does anyone just make or do stuff for a living, any more?

Not really, luckily it is brutally competitive world for these influencers. If they stop posting for a couple of days, a newer, younger loudmouth will be along to replace them. Then what are all the ex influencers going to do? We haven’t seen this yet but it will come.

Terminal_Boy · 22 Jun 2019 at 08:41

It’s the ones with just a couple of hundred followers telling you how much exposure they can give you in return for a bunch of free stuff that crack me up.

Jokester · 22 Jun 2019 at 08:47

MBennett said:
Not really, luckily it is brutally competitive world for these influencers. If they stop posting for a couple of days, a newer, younger loudmouth will be along to replace them. Then what are all the ex influencers going to do? We haven’t seen this yet but it will come.

In a lot of cases it will involve suicide.

pinkpound · 22 Jun 2019 at 12:08

Jokester said:
In a lot of cases it will involve suicide.

So something positive then

sgavan · 22 Jun 2019 at 12:54

Freddie1980 said:
Social influencers, a self appointed title used by people to freeload on hotel stays, trips abroad and getting free stuff because you might post something about it on IG.

This exactly

Abraxaz1 · 22 Jun 2019 at 13:02

From what I can tell the majority of female influencers are just escorts, they go around the world and meet rich men.

Yadda · 22 Jun 2019 at 13:35

Unfortunately, it seems like a very effective form of advertising so I think we're stuck with "social influencers" for the foreseeable.

PS.

Typing this post with an Nvidia RTX powered PC was such a good experience. Nvidia - ride the winds of change.

Terminal_Boy · 22 Jun 2019 at 13:37

pinkpound said:
So something positive then

Every cloud has a silver lining.

easyrider · 22 Jun 2019 at 14:11

First world problems.

azazl187 · 22 Jun 2019 at 14:19

Tee Hee Johnson said:
You are cool.

I know

azazl187 · 22 Jun 2019 at 14:23

ttaskmaster said:
Does anyone just make or do stuff for a living, any more?

I'm a carpenter and so happy that I do not fall anywhere near being in these "jobs" that people do for a "living".

It just seems a bit lazy to me

Ice Tea · 22 Jun 2019 at 14:48

Crazy that it's now crept into Politics , not sure if that shows how powerful it is or just how desperate politicians are in trying anything to sway votes.

They seem to be spending a lot of money on it...

Em3bbs · 22 Jun 2019 at 15:14

Freddie1980 said:
Social influencers, a self appointed title used by people to freeload on hotel stays, trips abroad and getting free stuff because you might post something about it on IG.

Actually, I'd say it is one of the only few job titles these days that actually describes what the person does. I've seen first hand how social media can affect traffic/downloads/installs of things if done well, so done correctly it is not a job without merit.

Ice Tea · 23 Jun 2019 at 08:55

June 20, 2019

https://globalnews.ca/news/5413521/elections-canada-influencer-campaign/

Elections Canada had already paid the social media “influencers” it planned to use to encourage voter registrations ahead of the fall election prior to cancelling the campaign.

A spokesperson for the agency confirmed to Global News that it already gave out at least some of the $650,000 set aside to get the 13 influencers — musicians, athletes and YouTube stars among them — to feature in a promotional campaign aimed at increasing voter registration.

There's a recent example of Politics ready to throw big money at influencers....

VincentHanna · 23 Jun 2019 at 09:10

Ice Tea said:
June 20, 2019

https://globalnews.ca/news/5413521/elections-canada-influencer-campaign/

There's a recent example of Politics ready to throw big money at influencers....

Ummm, That actually sounds like a good way to get young people to vote....

Didn't sound like they were going to tell them how to vote.

dowie · 23 Jun 2019 at 13:01

Terminal_Boy said:
It’s the ones with just a couple of hundred followers telling you how much exposure they can give you in return for a bunch of free stuff that crack me up.

You got any examples of that?

I’ve seen a post about one with 10,000 or so followers trying it on. But a couple of hundred is deluded to the extreme!

Nasher · 23 Jun 2019 at 13:05

10,000 is still a bit meh. That isn't a lot of people really and these kind of people probably use those companies which sell followers/likes