Proof people have no idea what I do at work.

So, as you may know, I run our newspaper's Web site.

It is a provided system we use from College Publisher, a company that provides Web site templates and servers for most college papers in the country. We recently switched to the new system they offer, Polopoly 5.0. It is a customizable system, very nice, but it does what it does, if you catch my drift. Everything from layout design to formatting can be adjusted and changed, but it is not an open-ended system.

So, today, an editor is talking to me, and says "You know what would make the Web site better? Like, what would drive site traffic up a lot? Some sort of social networking thing, like Facebook."

I laugh...
Oh wait, she is serious.

I explain to her "Yeah, College Publisher doesn't offer that. We have what we have."

She stares at me, and goes "Well couldn't you just build it yourself?" Like it is that easy to build a Facebook system from thin air.

After no less than 5 minutes explaining to her that while the system we use is nice, we cannot just "make" a social networking tool. And add it. We just can't.

She finally said "You just don't get it" and walks off.





Edited by agentwhale007 - 01 March 2009 at 10:44pm

inb4 cp

edit: in after cp


Edited by oreomann33 - 01 March 2009 at 10:42pm

She obviously doesn't realize who she's dealing with.  Seriously. 

bravecoward wrote: reminds me of dunder mifflin infinity

Heh. I was thinking the same thing.

bravecoward wrote: also i miss your mcdonald stories

For the record...


... The creators of Facebook just made it from thin air.

I hate when computer illiterate people try to talk about like they know what they're talking about.

Makes my blood boil.

Monk wrote: Can you add a comments part after the articles posted? Maybe that's what she wants.

I already have commenting turned on. People use that all the time.

No, she was talking about making some sort of system, that would function completely within our own system now. She essentially wanted Facebook, within our Web site.

agentwhale007 wrote: Monk wrote: Can you add a comments part after the articles posted? Maybe that's what she wants. I already have commenting turned on. People use that all the time. No, she was talking about making some sort of system, that would function completely within our own system now. She essentially wanted Facebook, within our Web site.

aside from how amazingly difficult it would be for one person to write and maintain the code for that, who would use it when you already have facebook and myspace?

Maybe some user submitted news? But when you use a customizable system, it makes customizing kinda difficult, like those freakin website templates[/mini rant].

What marketing people fail to understand is the underlying reason why people (younger than 30) use facebook.

It's to stalk that hot girl from high school.

Not to play zombie wars, not to read advertisements, not to do ANYTHING ELSE except look into other people's lives.