Wallets with Eyes

Are you starting to feel like you’ve been boiled down to being simply a wallet with eyes?

Everybody and everything is being geared towards capturing your eyes and trying to use them as a gateway to your wallet.  Adsense, billboards, commercials, social networking sites, and yes…shockingly enough…even my wife’s magazines.  Have you looked at one of those lately?  I leafed through a couple the other day waiting for my doctors appointment.  (Don’t get me started about ALWAYS waiting around for my doctors "appointment").  Page after page of advertisements and every 3rd or 4th page might have a paragraph on how to trim up for summer or the like.

I’ve always hoped that I was greater than the sum of my parts…but the only parts everybody seems to be interested in these days are my eyes and my wallet…well, maybe my right arm and hand so I can get my wallet out of my pocket…

Even all these cool FREE services like this Live Spaces page and my Live mail account…all courtesy of somebody in marketing that thinks that since you’re reading this…that flashy banner ad is burning an indelible impression on your brain…you can’t resist…you must buy whatever product appears at the top of the screen…

Yeah right.

Doug White