Chimp fishing for ants in a tree using a twig Posters by Michael Nichols at AllPosters.com

I remember in the nineties when I first started using the internet, it was a black screen and I had a compuserve account, kind of bulletim board. The main topic of discussion was the fight against the commercialization of the internet. We wanted to have it just for us, to colaborate and networking with friends.

Who could stop the wave of companies trying to "invest" money in the systems, they knew it was a huge market. That is what we have today. Problaby there is more than a billion  people spending time  at least in a weekly basis in the internet. And today thousands are making real money through it and millions are trying to make some money.

For some people social media looks like a nest of ants were they spend their time fishing.
_Where are you going? someone may ask.
_Oh, I am fixing to do some internet marketing through my social media network.
Tanslated: Going Fishing.

I believe we do marketing every time we are in a social network. We market our image, it may be to make friends, or clients. We are twitted sometimes by people that has nothing to say:
_I guess I'm going to make me a sandwich, I feel hungry....
Duh....
Looks cute, he or she want just to sell an image how cool they are. Selling image, because they do not have to say things like that, as a matter of fact, they do not have to say anything, full stop, period. Then why they are saying wherever comes to their mind ? , oh it looks cool.

We are always marketing our image, how we want to be perceived by others.

People that has something to offer should just make friends, be polite, respect someone else's space. Don't send junk twitties, or, worse, blatantly unsolicited products.

We don't have to make the internet a place to fishing ants, unless you are...a chimp?

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