Social object : gapingvoid

As y’all will know, I’m fond of talking about “Social Objects” and how they pertain to “Marketing 2.0”. Even so, some people still get confused by what a Social Object actually is. So I wrote the following to clarify some more:

The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to talking to somebody else. Human beings are social animals. We like to socialize. But if think about it, there needs to be a reason for it to happen in the first place. That reason, that “node” in the social network, is what we call the Social Object.

Or, : “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”

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