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Will Social Network Sites Exist 5 Years From Now?

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Social networking sites are increasingly becoming a center of activity on the web. MySpace and Facebook have become the modern day portals. Last week, Sarah Perez suggested that social networks will soon become the next iTunes in that they will become the center of media distribution. Back in No ... Continue reading »

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  • Jonathan Dingman

    1 year ago

    Where's the poll! We need a poll on here!
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  • Tim Courtney

    1 year ago

    Nick, I think you're on track here when you bring this back to the average Joe. I learned a lot one day when I was hanging out with a few completely non-techie friends on their laptops and watched them use Facebook. It was a new playground for them -- one where they added goofy apps, clicked, on ads, and participated in tons of surveys (none of which I do on a regular basis). Us heavy users are fairly advanced in both our understanding of social networking sites and in our knowledge of social graph theory. Until it becomes transparent and natural for the user, this won't happen. That means, until you no longer have to link up various services and mash things together (feed my Twitter updates to FB, etc), this won't be the next TV.

    But when it does happen, it'll be fascinating.
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  • Nick O'Neill

    1 year ago

    @Jonathan, I added the poll ... now just need to fix the styling :)
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  • Jonathan Dingman

    1 year ago

    Great! Thank you Nick.

    Hopefully I'll see you up here in NYC soon, we need more Facebook action up here!
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  • Ari Shohat

    1 year ago

    5 years from now - Yes. 10-15 years from now... do we need another poll? :)
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