Aficionado is the new hater. And it’s great.

Using social networks to express negative feedback is nowadays a widespread behaviour. It is easy and convenient for everyone to protest on some bad experience directly to the brand’s face on a public social tribune like Twitter or Facebook. But as last years were the rise of haters and trolls, we can see today the appearance of new types of interactions when people are unhappy -or insufficiently happy- with their favourite brand or service. Feedback get more and more wise and argued. No, look! Sometimes this feedback is not just feedback anymore, but ready-to-deploy solutions describing how it is possible for you as a brand to improve customers’ experience. Does this ring a bell? From a product point of you, what your customers are offering you at this moment are UX recommendations.

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