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Is social networking becoming spread too thin?
General Discussion
Every interest group in sight has a social networking site. Some of them have ten, or even fifty. With so many sites out there, and with so many others preparing to launch social networking tools -- including us -- do you think we might be getting close to a tipping point where people might be glad to revert to being hermits? I wonder if people are getting networked out; if they're feeling just a little bit TOO connected to the people around them. Okay, but....Submitted by swilcox@hawthor... on Tue, 2007-09-04 15:17.
Maybe I'm just projecting a little of my own frustrations into this particular topic. For instance, I just spent a little time looking around your site and would like to spend more. But a lad's gotta budget his time! For people like me with broad and idiosyncratic interests, it's hard to figure out where you're going to spend your finite number of hours.In one sense, it's no different than the old days, I suppose, in that you pick among friends, shopping malls, restaurants, and vacation destinations. You might want to visit one hundred places, but you can only afford two. With social networking sites, it's kind of the same thing -- I want to visit more than one hundred places, but only have time for a handful. Maybe I'm just being a wimp here, but it almost seems like a sort of a pressure in trying to pick among so much opportunity for learning and camaraderie :-) Right on!Submitted by skelley@hawthor... on Tue, 2007-09-04 14:37.
Technology enables the individual to have the power and choice. I can set up a site for just the 5 people in the world interested in a very particular topic or my family. From the perspective of mass marketers it's the evil of fragmentation. From the perspective of individuals its demanding just what we want and avoiding what we don't want. Advertisers who really understand the concepts of opt-in, targetting and micro-marketing can bypass the mass-marketing FUD. BTW, nice site! Yes..and no!Submitted by stevek@virtusta... on Tue, 2007-07-31 23:20.
It's all about pull rather than push and the individual choosing what, where, when and how they get their information. We have the opportunity to give control of communication and media to the individual instead of having large corporations decide how things will work. Information overload is a serious issue which you can let big brother use as an excuse to take over for you or you can choose to deal with it yourself. I choose not to use instant messaging, heavily filter my email, check my email a few times daily rather than as each message arrives, not answer the phone, not have TV or cable channels, subscribe to the few RSS feeds that are relevant and useful to me, and get movies online and offline from Netflix. Our world is one of overabundance in many areas, including material and information. You have the opporunity to stuff yourself until you die or take control of your own life. I'm not in favor of controls or legislation to protect people from eating, smoking, Everquesting or networking themselves to death. Let Darwinian selection do what it does best! |
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No Way; it is all about cliques.
People like to complain that they want to be left alone, but the popularity of such sites and forums absolutely shows us otherwise. Blogs took off like fire...still are strong. Myspace, facebook, forums, chats, you name it...
The only difference is, is that we are now seeing people filter a bit more. It isn't as fun to go into a chat room called "50's having fun" with boomers for the heck of it. Now people want to really be with birds of a feather - and the amount of social networking proves this --- people are not spread to thin, it is just more and more people becoming involved as the networking becomes more and more acceptable.
In the ol' days, the rooms and forums were seen as singles bars. Now, it is tacky to even elude to that. It's a virtual world out there, with virtual friends that are available when it is convenient for you - unlike the telephone or meetings, when things can be inconvenient.
Social networking is going strong.
In fact....visit my new one - http://paiva.informe.com :)
Michele M. Paiva
http://web.mac.com/mmpaiva