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Re: Will Social Network Sites Exist 5 Years From Now?

Ari Shohat — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:57:22 -0000

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

Re: Will Social Network Sites Exist 5 Years From Now?

Jonathan Dingman — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:53:27 -0000

Great! Thank you Nick.

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

Re: Will Social Network Sites Exist 5 Years From Now?

Nick O'Neill — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:49:22 -0000

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

Re: Will Social Network Sites Exist 5 Years From Now?

Tim Courtney — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:43:26 -0000

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.

Re: Will Social Network Sites Exist 5 Years From Now?

Jonathan Dingman — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:41:11 -0000

Where's the poll! We need a poll on here!