Guess one really does learn something new every day…or at least every few days.
There was an article in the Washington Post on Saturday, 7 October 2006 about various marketing techniques used on the Internet. The author used a term I had never encountered before…”Meat Puppet,” along with a number of other more common terms.
After reading the article, I thought about it for a while and decided that the marketing techniques the author talked about were not really unique to the Internet. They have been in use for years. Its just that the media used to deliver them has changed and the results are achieved much more rapidly than in the past.
What do you think?
Wow! Let me see if I have this right.
A “meat puppet” is a fake identity created to talk as a sort of “outside party” or to provide a “second opinion” in the faceless world of the Internet.
A “sock puppet troll” is fake identity used to start an argument online.
Which all leads to the fun one – that being the “Dank” – an idiot who intended to be post the rebuttal to his own comment as the “sock puppet troll” but forgot to logoff as himself (oh yes, this *IS* a man thing)!
FANTASTICALLY DELICIOUS!
I am just a simple-minded person. Not clever, at all! Thanks for sharing.