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They Made Us Hyper-Connected, Now What?

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

I’ve spent the past few years on Facebook and various social networks. While I had been using the internet daily since middle school, social networks were really what helped me increase my ability to stay in touch with the everyday person I interacted with. In college, you go out t ... Continue reading »

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  • Jared Goralnick

    11 months ago

    You raise two very prescient points--that much of generation Y relies more on social networks to manage their contacts than traditional address books, and that most of their electronic communication is not through email but social networks (or SMS). As such, why aren't all the organizational features more commonly found in a personal information management (PIM) application in Facebook? People are spending their lives there, why not make it easier for them?

    I think these features are on the way. I don't see serious contact portability, but I would imagine a contact list that doesn't require two-ways acceptance would be a huge help. If FB doesn't create it, it seems like an awesome opportunity for an app (if it doesn't already exist).

    I don't see FB as the open platform for contacts (Plaxo, maybe? nah), but I see them at least making it easier to work with them. We can all hope...
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