prediction: social networks
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- n8w
obviously there are way too many social networks to keep track of ...
what do your predict will happen with them in the next year or so?
related reads
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_…
- monNom0
google merges them all into Gspace and nobody can ever compete in the space again
- you heard it here firstmonNom
- I made the mistake of www.gspace.com :(fusionpixel
- bolus0
google & the chinese government strike a deal and buy the internet. your google search results will determine who your friends should be and google acts accordingly: by recreating your life online
- n8w0
I predict I will learn how to spell :)
- n8w0
Lots of big companies are using these to make direct contact with consumers .. here is a product that facilitates
http://www.flux.com/product"Want to let users push your content to other sites with just a few clicks? Or maybe you want to create customized pages that deliver robust communities on your site?"
- n8w0
facebook sees a decline in users
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/busin…- 21 February 2008
They currently have an est. growth of 650,000 users per day.******** - 70% of growth is from non US countries********
- US countries?********
- 21 February 2008
- ********0
I have a feeling social networking will fall into the realm of novelty. Remember when AIM started with AOL, and everyone used to use chat rooms? now no one cares. Give it a few. No one will care what your favorite song is or your holiday pictures. Socializing will return to the real world. In fact, broadcasting your personal info will ultimately only serve others who want to look you up, so if anything, tools will get better and your pepsonal profiles will get less and less candid, if dishonest. It will be like advertising yourself (if it isnt already), which will lead people to question the glossy cesspool of content as a whole.
- the future looks bright, thanksbolus
- It's all about age also.I have grown out of myspace, facebook and AIM. Only the really young kids are into that stuff********
- stuff or older people who wish they were forever 21.********
- n8w0
good analysis cannonball
- n8w0
- ********0
CGINDIA.Org gonna buy them all :p
- Jnr_Madison0
I really hope cannonball is right but I fear for the future. I think this generation will ultimately see the light but the younger generations are so used to these forms of communication they don't know any other way.
- n8w0
I do see how google should feel threaten .. because instead of searching for thing via google .. a lot people find content via word of mouth ... twitter, facebook, forums, etc
- ********0
I think most will start failing when people realize that they are annoying, stalker-ish and are just glorified email.
- 7point340
they will become banks
- n8w0
I think Okurt is the only service they own ... but blogger is kind of like a social network via the comments .. and they are spearheading open social and friend connect
- but now they are regulating blogs and what people say.********
- but now they are regulating blogs and what people say.
- ********0
about a year ago I canceled my last.fm account; the entire world will soon follow
- harlequino0
One possibility:
Facebook seems like the middle of the road of everything right now. Can be relatively private and casual and free of bother if done right.
I think there will be a divide in that middle of the road. Those more dedicated to the online socializing world will gravitate toward networks that mutate and become closer to a Second Life type experience, and become even more deeply imbedded.
The middle will fade and be replaced by the next web thing, and the lightest users will find a very simple solution to accomodate their needs, essentially an enhanced email.Another possibility:
The next few years will see the maturing of a generation who have grown up with the concept of "open source" and will create a new breed of social networking, in which every individual has their own entirely unique social network. Like Ning, but far deeper, and completely customizable and open source. Open source programming and architecture will be old hat, and be the CSS of the future. If MySpace/Fcebook is the equivalent of having your own house or neighborhood online, this next wave will be the equivalent of having your own country or world.
- ********0
Younger generations won't learn to be more professional about the whole thing, which will lead parents to have the "Careful what you broadcast about yourself dear" conversation along with the sex talk at early ages. The world will start holding people more accountable for things they put on their profiles. Your myspace pictures of you getting wasted will hurt your chances (or help) at working at hoity toity place.