In today’s Wall Street Journal, Nick Wingfield and Pui-Wing Tam comment on the “social anesthesia that distracts people from the stress of unemployment.”
Before the Internet, traditional forms of entertainment helped pass the time away for the jobless. In the 1930’s it was the movie theater. In the 1990’s it was the television. Today, it’s the Internet. And you can imagine what is being consumed! Everything from free videos at Hulu.com and WatchTVSitcoms.com to online game play at popcap.com to free porn at spankwire.com.
I can’t help but wonder how many of those people at the local Starbucks with their laptops are both jobless and writing their blogs or contributing to one. Or, are they simply doing nothing? The Net Potato, should they wrap their minds around this simple idea, can in fact become a NetPreneur. They can convert all that free time and caffeine-induced energy binges into blogs that have the ability, with the right content, to drive traffic to a website. That traffic can translate, after various creative endeavors, into sales. And those sales can translate into a happy existence. Imagine doing what you love to do, and getting paid for it. It’s also known as The American Dream.
Cheers,
Richard
The Right Click – Technology Update
Tags: jobless, killing time, net potato
