Orangescale Studio

Here’s an illustration:

You learn about web technologies like design, content management systems, social media. At the same time, you also study some of those subjects deeper. It makes you understand and sometime you can make a small prediction about what will happen next if you use certain strategies (in one of those technologies). You help someone based on your knowledge, but he/she always gives you arguments, telling you this and that like he/she knows better than you.

In the end — or in a particular stage — the situation happens just like what you tell him/her. As the consequence, you have to deal something that you already had in mind before everything was started. You move backward.

I think some people already been in the situation above. And sometime, it happened to me. For example, when Twitter was not popular in Indonesia like today. I taught myself about what happened to Twitter out there (outside the country). I read how Twitter was being used by individuals, public figures even companies. Not only that, I also learn the good and not so good practices of using Twitter.

I had someone asked me about this and wanted to learn about Twitter. I told many things about Twitter, including what Twitter is. I proposed some ideas about how Twitter can help him to build his brand. He did not found that Twitter was popular at that time. He only ‘heard’ of it, but never used it. I believed that it was about time.

After about a year, Twitter popularity hit this country. Many people use it for different purposes. What happen to him? The situation left him behind. While everyone gain something good because of what I’ve told him months before, he goes nowhere. Sometime, I really want to say this: “I told you…”

I hate when I’m in this kind of situation. I really wanted to help, but sometime some people did not allow me to help. I’m fine. Sometime, I just smile.