The GENIUS that is Amazon.com
Apr. 1st, 2015 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beadyeyedbethAmazon keeps finding new ways to get us to spend money by making it FUN, and nearly painless. Amazon takes the instant-gratification ball and runs with it every time. The very first time I bought an ebook on my second generation Kindle I was like a kid on Christmas morning. “How cool is this?” I thought — press a button and get a book…immediately! I was hooked. Last week my newest Kindle Fire HDX arrived, my third Kindle — a gift I chose, but paid for by Ed (now Amazon has me spending other people’s money, in addition to my own). Then there’s Kindle Unlimited, and Amazon Prime, and, and, and…
I believe that technological conveniences feed laziness and make people dependent and soft, but if a techno-gadget is involved I’m easily won over. Gadgets and technology fascinate me. I find this new Amazon Dash Button thingy cool, a little ridiculous and guilt-inducing, but so cool (I don’t need it, but I want it). People love pushing buttons, and Amazon knows it. People love and will pay for convenience, and Amazon knows it. It’s satisfying to push a button and know that something fun/cool/convenient will happen as a result. The new Amazon Dash Button is like having your own push-button genie in a bottle, except that you have to pay.
I would like to say that I am a grownup and will not give in to this new technological silliness, but if the day ever comes when pushing a button means that in 15 minutes a drone will show up at my door with a package? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
I believe that technological conveniences feed laziness and make people dependent and soft, but if a techno-gadget is involved I’m easily won over. Gadgets and technology fascinate me. I find this new Amazon Dash Button thingy cool, a little ridiculous and guilt-inducing, but so cool (I don’t need it, but I want it). People love pushing buttons, and Amazon knows it. People love and will pay for convenience, and Amazon knows it. It’s satisfying to push a button and know that something fun/cool/convenient will happen as a result. The new Amazon Dash Button is like having your own push-button genie in a bottle, except that you have to pay.
I would like to say that I am a grownup and will not give in to this new technological silliness, but if the day ever comes when pushing a button means that in 15 minutes a drone will show up at my door with a package? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
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Date: 2015-04-01 03:33 pm (UTC)And speaking of Take My Money, I 'ordered' a quarter ring from you via DM on Twitter. (I don't do Facebook.) But if you'd rather I wait until, Etsy, that's cool. But please do tweet or post here when the Etsy is ready. Thanks!