The Cluetrain Manifesto: The end of business as Usual, Chapter 3

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Learning Expectations: 

            Based on Chapter 3, I expect to learn how experience of people affects their conversation with each other. I also expect to learn how wired conversations change the lifestyle of many people today and how internet revolutionized communication between people. 

Review: 

            The way people communicate with each other nowadays has been changed a lot ever since. From one to one talk which then evolved to talking through telephone and now through chat and email. Internet has really improved the way people converse with each other. People can now talk from one side of the world to the other. For example, a man from the Philippines can now talk to someone in the United States of America cheaply and quickly. The distance of the countries are very far from each other, one coming from the East while the other from the West. Both countries divided by large and deep pools of water. But still, both people communicated with each other in just a matter of seconds. That is how revolutionized communication is nowadays and how big a factor the internet has been in terms of communication.

            Electronic Mail or is widely known as simply E-Mail, has changed how people communicate publicly or privately. E-mail is used inside companies or outside of it, depends on the situation. People could say whatever they want to say to their friends with just the click of one button namely “Send”. With this one button that sends the information the person wants to give to his friend, the communication with each other is strengthened even more. Friendships and camaraderie are made and reinforced with just the click of button. That is how e-mail changed the world in terms of communication. It is also a way for people to release their true selves and talk to others in a way they may wish to do.

            Another feature that the internet created was the Mailing Lists. Mailing Lists are messages that are sent to a list of people for further convenience. A good example for this is if a person wants to send a Greeting Card to all of his friends and family members, he/she would just select those people he/she wanted to send the Greeting Card to and just click the “Send” button to send it. It is called the one-way list. The other type of Mailing Lists is called as webzine or e-zine or electronic magazine as stated in the book. Basically, it’s a magazine on the web. These are published by people in their offices or even in their garages if they prefer. Another type of Mailing List is called the two-way list. The difference between the two is that the two-way list can receive responses from other people which let the people communicate each other greatly. An advantage of this to an e-mail is that two or more responses can be received simultaneously at the same time increasing the effectiveness of their conversation. 

            Newsgroups are another way for people to communicate in the internet. It has a news server to handle all the news that the people posts in the net. Different kinds of people can post different kinds of things or topics they want and other people would have the liberty to respond to the thread. This is a great way to communicate because different people with different experiences can share what they know and what they think about a certain topic. This variance can then generate a new idea that can someday change how people think of about the topic. People can help out each other regarding some things and they can flame each other just for the hang of it. There is also a chance that a person from a certain company would leak out private information about a company just to help out because of his own reasons. People can be really flexible regarding communication in the internet.

            Another way for communication that has really changed people think is the Chat. Chatting can be done just like the rest but people get a different feeling seeing that the person is typing his/her reply in live. Distance is not a factor for internet because it has connected people all over the world.

            Web pages are personalized site in the internet where you can know something about a person just by browsing through their web pages. People can gain information or knowledge just by looking through some pictures, blogs, and posts by some person. Just by viewing a person’s pictures will give others idea on what are the things the person likes, likes to do, likes to eat, and the like. By means of blogs, people could know what the things the person thinks about a lot are and what are the things the person likes to do. 

            Overall, internet changed how people converse with each other. Internet disregarded distance from each other and the speed it takes for the messages to arrive. Speed and convenience are just two of the factors the internet has that lured millions of people all over the world to use internet. Internet truly changed the world in a big way. People who hadn’t accepted internet should reconsider and just pay a little, get a lot, talk is cheap.

Lessons Learned: 

            I have learned that the internet has changed the world all over a lot by means of communication. People from different sides of the world can converse and share information in just a couple of seconds. What a convenient way for people to get to know each other despite the distance.

            I also learned that internet is such a great deal because we just pay a little, get a lot, talk is cheap.