<div class="gmail_quote">2011/11/11 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ablainey@aol.com">ablainey@aol.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Anyway, not just shameless advertising of a new site. I wonder what the take is on the future of social networking?</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think it's going away. :-) I bailed on Facebook years ago because I found the interface and privacy issues too frustrating. These days I'm doing Google+ and Twitter, though I use the latter more a source of information than a channel for publishing my own info.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The problem with any any new social networking mechanism is reaching a critical mass. You can set up the niftiest site in the world, but attracting enough people away from Facebook to make it viable is tough. Google+ is better than Facebook, IMO, but even with Google behind it, it's not guaranteed to catch on sufficiently.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I have LinkedIn, FB and the usual suspects. I dont think any of them offers what I want or really need. To be honest Im not sure what I really need if anything at all?<br>
</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nobody really <i>needs</i> social networking, but it does offer value to its users.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Will the trend be to step back to simpler times? Or continue towards sites that want to control ever aspect of our lives?</font></blockquote></div><br><div>I think that's a false dichotomy, but I don't see a big future for "simpler times".</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Dave</div>