Good call bringing that idea back. Definitely an example of social media.
I voted to keep Jason, by the way.
Mark Dykeman
· 1 year ago
I didn't vote on Jason Todd's fate as I wasn't reading many comics those days.
If I had, maybe I would have created a tie!
Richie Escovedo
· 1 year ago
In my opinion this is a positive I.D. of early social media in act. Consumers/users/customers/community members/etc. weighing in on something that is important to them using a format (phone call) that is open.
Mark Dykeman
· 1 year ago
Someone on Twitter mentioned that comic book readers didn't have a chance to communicate with each other using the phone numbers. That's a fair point.
Tibi Puiu
· 1 year ago
Well, I guess you could consider this a form of social media, in the sense that the creators of a product are in direct contact with the consumers, who get to choose what's best for them. Actually the vote up, vote down stuff quite sounds like digg, errmm or rather reddit :D
Yogizilla
· 10 months ago
I believe true social media is accessible and shareable. Of course, user-generated content is very much social media but I feel that, without an easy to way to share this information with other influencers, it is not completely so. Naturally, not all social media is viral but I would think you'd at least want to have tools in place for there to be such potential; after all, any social medium is only as good as the "legs" created to help people find it or bring it to the people (pull or push, sometimes both).
In those days, ads in a comic book got good response so this was definitely a buzz-generating device but, considering all the de-centralized platforms, this is more like interrupt marketing in the works than anything else. Now, if they made it so that folks could dial their friends right from the system and get them to vote and do the same, then it'd be a complete social medium. Connectivity, referral networking, shareability, and the like all make social media succeed or fail, me thinks. =o]
In any case, I love user-generated content and this was definitely an example of ideas that were ahead of their time. 8)
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I voted to keep Jason, by the way.
If I had, maybe I would have created a tie!
In those days, ads in a comic book got good response so this was definitely a buzz-generating device but, considering all the de-centralized platforms, this is more like interrupt marketing in the works than anything else. Now, if they made it so that folks could dial their friends right from the system and get them to vote and do the same, then it'd be a complete social medium. Connectivity, referral networking, shareability, and the like all make social media succeed or fail, me thinks. =o]
In any case, I love user-generated content and this was definitely an example of ideas that were ahead of their time. 8)