Ok it wasn’t until very recently that I became aware of Empire Avenue (EA), which is odd because I am usually on the forefront of the social media revolution. It’s not as if I am the world leader in all things social media but I generally keep an eye out for new products or projects. So I was a bit surprised when I signed up on EA and it’s already pretty filled up.
After spending a day linking and configuring my profile with all of the regular suspects as well as several blog sites that I am personally involved in I am left wondering why? Honestly there’s something comical about the whole buying and selling shares in an individual’s presence on the social media spectrum.
I liken it to buying virtual furniture for your virtual home in a virtual reality. I have a real home that requires real maintenance, like mowing the real lawn and staining the real deck. Why the hell do I want to waste my life away in a virtual one? Believe me I get the new virtual frontier but sadly many advertisers have no clue about the value of virtual realities yet. I’ve written about this before so let’s not rehash the painfully obvious.
No the interestingly whacky thing about EA is that you can earn Eaves which is the currency of EA and you can spend real cash to buy them. This is kind of off putting in the sense that I still have not discovered the real tangible value in this site. It’s almost more of social entertainment than anything else.
To spend hard earned cash on buying eaves so that I can buy shares of another person seems a bit out of whack to me. I just stating my gut feeling on this and hope that someone can shed some light on it. Perhaps there’s a light that hasn’t switched on yet. Honestly that is my main reason for writing this. It’s my hope that someone anyone please enlighten us all on the value of this new site.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mikel King has been a leader in the Information Technology Services field for over 20 years. He is currently the CEO of Olivent Technologies, a professional creative services partnership in NY. Additionally he is currently serving as the Secretary of the BSD Certification group as well as a Senior Editor for the BSD News Network.