Comments on: Confessions of a ‘social worker’ https://www.manuprasad.com/2013/02/14/confessions-of-a-social-worker/ Manu Prasad | Fractional CMO Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: manuscrypts https://www.manuprasad.com/2013/02/14/confessions-of-a-social-worker/#comment-586 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:32:00 +0000 http://www.manuprasad.com/blog/?p=5128#comment-586 In reply to Asfaq.

Hmm, depends on how we define advertising. There are many awesome pieces of content that I like/can relate to, and which happen to be ads. Relevant, interesting etc etc. Also, exaggeration is a key device in storytelling.
I’m not sure of the punning either because most of our other hashtags have had nothing to do with wordplay.
I am my own audience when writing – as in, my thoughts become clearer to me when I write. Don’t know if it came across as justification. 😀 Unintended. The naysayers in this case were more curious than naysayers per se. But yes, I totally understand that that’s not usually the case! 🙂
PS: Good to see you around 🙂

]]> By: Asfaq https://www.manuprasad.com/2013/02/14/confessions-of-a-social-worker/#comment-585 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:12:00 +0000 http://www.manuprasad.com/blog/?p=5128#comment-585 The truth of the matter is that no one likes advertising. As marketeers, we need to accept that. If you speak to someone in a way the actors in ads speak, they will run away.

The reason these banal hashtags are popular is because this is how most of us speak offline too. We are constantly creating terrible puns. Silly hashtags give us the creative license to go overboard — and celebrate in.

You seem to be justifying your actions here. Trust me — I have done more trending activities than I can remember — there is no end to the naysayers.

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