On why experts shouldn’t talk for people

When I read this post, I almost had an impulsive urge to ask the writer to read this post of mine. But, I decided against that. After all, if I did that, I would be considered “yet another desperate mobile advertiser”, which I’m not by any stretch of imagination.

One of the problems of being an expert is that you start thinking on behalf of people. Like the writer, who has already decided that cell phone advertising is going to be a big turn-off for consumers and has warned them against it. It’s like telling people, “Listen up people; you don’t have to think about anything. You don’t have to analyze anything. After all, we’re here to tell you what’s right, what’s wrong, what’s good, what’s bad, what amounts to intrusion of privacy and what doesn’t, and everything else you need to know. So, let’s do all the thinking. You just read what we write and make a decision.” Nice work fellas.

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Categories: Rant.

2 comments.

Yianni Garcia

Comment on January 16th, 2008.

I’m all for cheaper phone bills (AT&T costs me an arm and a leg every month) but ads while I’m talking to someone seems a bit too invasive. I’m more into the click to call technology for mobile web users. Something that enhances the mobile experience rather than disrupt it.

put trackback notification on your comments.

Krishnan

Comment on January 17th, 2008.

Hi Yianni, I agree with you. It’d be a tad annoying to see your call get interrupted with an ad. But the link I’ve mentioned there talks about audio ads being played while you wait for the call to get connected. Now, I don’t see anything wrong with that? But the expert in question did. That’s why she came up with that kind of post, assuming that it would be a problem for people. That’s why I mentioned, experts shouldn’t decide for people. Let people decide what they want and what they don’t want. Right? :)

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