What Would Make You Happy In 2010?
January 11, 2010 – 10:04 pm | by Daryl TayEarlier this week Brian from Happyesque dropped me a private message on Twitter asking me to send him a Tweet on what would make me happy in 2010.
I took a few days to think this over – should it be social media focused? Or something personal? Could I write something smart? After all the options are endless – Companies finally start to wake up to social media, being happy, Arsenal winning the Premier League, the final season of Lost being the best ever….
Then in the few short days I was thinking about it, barely a week into 2010 we have bloggers wasting company time and resources for a prank , angst over postbox publicity, the whole fiasco in Malaysia and buses carrying soccer players getting shot at and I just thought to myself “jeez this is how we’re starting the year?”
And with that my answer formed: I just want people to be kinder to each other, both online and offline. If we can do this and not start new wars this year, I think I’d be pretty happy.
Head on to Happyesque to check out the responses from Tweeters and Bloggers and share what would make YOU happy in 2010 in the comments.
Tags: 2010, arsenal, happiness, happy, happyesque, lost, postbox, social media, twitter
2 Responses to “What Would Make You Happy In 2010?”
By Jonathan Wong on Jan 12, 2010 | Reply
Haha… I just read the silly OCBC stunt from the link you provided. IMO, that is nothing else more than just a blatant attempt at grabbing attention.
It seems that with the sheer number of blogs and grassroots online “publications” today, everyone tries a little bit harder to get the attention for themselves.
There are right ways to do it, and I agree with your sentiment that this was really just a waste of everyone’s time.
A lot less of that would make me happy in 2010.
By Daryl Tay on Jan 12, 2010 | Reply
@Jonathan Wong: Exactly it. I’m as big a fan of a prank as the next guy and I have nothing against sticking it to “the man” but I mean even then there’s an appropriate way and channel. And yes let’s have a bit less of this “LOOK AT ME FOR THE SAKE OF LOOKING AT ME” syndrome in 2010 – perhaps then people could begin to take social media a little more seriously.