What is Consumer and Prosumer?
Who are they?
When did it start?
“The Death of the Consumers”, it is not literally that Consumers is already dead. But for me in our generation Consumers now have already evolved also and they are called now “The Prosumers”. So as I continue this wonderful topic there are things or questions that bind in my mind as I go along with this and this are:
What is CONSUMER and PROSUMER?
Who are they?
When did it start?
Where?
Those questions that bind in my mind are the four (4) WH questions that can help me and us to really understand first the true meaning out of it, as we continue the topic of the DEATH OF THE CONSUMERS and maybe as we tackle these questions we will be able to answer our mean thought and help us learn a lot in this topic and the things that happen in our environment because as we live here in this world there are things we don’t know but they changing now so we must be aware of it because who know it maybe can help us or affect on us a lot in our daily life and wonderful Job opportunity. So first:
What is CONSUMER and PROSUMER?
Consumer is a broad label for any individuals or households that use goods and services generated within the economy. The concept of a consumer occurs in different contexts, so that the usage and significance of the term may vary.
A Consumer plays a vital role in the economical system of a nation because in the absence of the effective demand that emanates from them, the economy virtually collapses. Mahatma Gandhi said a customer is the most important visitor in our premises. He is not dependent on us, we are on him. He is not an interruption to our work; he is the purpose of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer
Prosumer is a portmanteau formed by contracting either the word professional or producer with the word consumer. The term has taken on multiple conflicting meanings: the business sector sees the prosumer (professional–consumer) as a market segment, whereas economists see the prosumer (producer–consumer) as having greater independence from the mainstream economy. It can also be thought of as converse to the consumer with a passive role, denoting an active role as the individual gets more involved in the process. More recently, in the mental health field, the word "'prosumer'" has come to mean "consumer/provider," also known as a "peer provider," such as a peer support specialist or other mental health consumer who also provides peer support mental health services (background on peer-run mental health services). The word "Prosumerise" has been coined by Widality to represent the merging of the IT and mobility requirements of the prosumer, consumer, and enterprise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosumer
“Consumer” is the one who are just the person or individual that the one who use the product, goods or services or shall we say they are just the users in our community Mahatma Gandhi said: “He is not an interruption to our work; he is the purpose of it.” Consumers have no power to roll over in a certain company or a certain business. Maybe they do have the power but not that so power that can manage things in a certain products or business, yes it is right consumers is the purpose of it because consumers are the one will use the products, in a business they are the reason why Big Company invent and working such thing that can help in our society. So let us continue about the “Prosumer” (Professional / Producer-consumer) is this case consumer turns into prosumer which means that prosumers have the power they are Professional and Producer they are the one who demand in our community or in a certain company or business, prosumer “denating an active role as the individual gets more involved in the process.” They are part now in a certain business and company, prosumer are the main provider of the company, with the help of the prosumers company may have the advantage for them to be able to know what the needs in our community. And they do have the other term of it is called “Prosumerise” (Prosumer, Consumer, and EnterPrise) making it cool that they do have really now the power to roll over our industry today.
And next is WHO question:
Who are they?
Yah, after all those things we have learned and tackle what is consumer and prosumer. Now we will going to proceed and to know who are this people, maybe now we have a big idea who are this people and yes you are right, yeah we are the one who could PROSUMERS and we are the CONSUMERS also but now we are in the new generation and this generation called “INFORMATION”, through this advance technology we people the one who provide and generate idea on it only they are the one who create it.
When did it start?
It is already started Hmm…. I guess around 2000’s up to this year and soon and soon, why I say so this year. Because base in our society (PHILIPPINES) we all know that our country 10 or 20 years gap to the other country maybe in others they are already Prosumers in early 90’s or 80’s this gap maybe because of the corruptions that we have in our country I’m not saying na “GINADAO-TAN NAKO ATONG COUNTRY” but I’m just saying the reality, it hurts because it is true(nn). It is already started so we people now have the power to demand the business or nay companies that having their own product and help them generate new idea for them they could help in our society also (nn) vice versa we help them and they help us also, we will just pray that they will not doing such things that so could “CORRUPTION”. We that are living in the same country same blood and same faith we should help each other to rise up in poverty and be equal.
Where?
Where? By the power of our technologies, gadgets and many more. For example Computer with internet connection, mobile phones, TV, Radio etc. that help us a lot to have a communications between the BUSINESS MAN and the CONSUMERS / PROSUMERS.
WE ARE NO LONGER CONSUMERS BUT A PROSUMERS!
“THINK or IMAGINE it, and we can do it.”
GODBLESS US
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