Let me share something with you: I am a victim.
I am a victim of meaningless conversations. I am not in great danger, but I am helpless. The worst thing is that I nearly give up bringing in context in a conversation.
Couple a days ago I had this written conversation:
Him: (very polite) I am selling ads and want to talk to you about advertisements.
Me: (very polite) Thank you very much for your offer, but on openBC advertisements are strictly prohibided – wich our member by the way really appreciate – and so unfortunately I can´t give you a positive answer.
Him: (still very engaged) Are you really really sure that you´re not interested in my offer? Please let´s talk, this could be of high interest for you.
Me: (a bit irritated checking my answers I´ve sent) Sorry for making it not clear to you, we here are not interested in advertisement. Thank you.
Him: (unhappy) What a pitty. I wanted to give advertisements to you.
Me: …
Link to this article:
http://blog.xing.com/2006/06/you-wanna-buy-ads-ehhmmno/trackback/
XING´s official twitter account
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Hi Daniella.
Has your position changed now?
Well, when it comes to the kind of one-way conversation where people only did call you to make their point – and do not listen to what you´re actually saying?! No.
What indeed has changed is the position of XING re ads on the platform.