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by Linda Roeder on July 4, 2007
I disagree with this statement. I don't believe that offline most people only belong to one social network and one professional network. Think about how many social networks you belong to in real life.
Some of my social networks include: my family, PTO at the kids school and the kids that my son races with and their families. Some people may even include the people from their church, their other kid's sports if they have more than one kid in sports or if their kids have more than one sport a piece, maybe a sewing or book club. Their are a lot of social networks we make in our day to day lives.
This is why we crave to belong to more than one social network online too. You may join MySpace and Facebook, then went on to join more niche targeted sites. Maybe you joined a social networking site for your cat or dog and another for parenting and maybe another because you love cars. I don't see anything wrong with that.
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Response from:
Simon Wakeman
(07/04/07 2:15pm)
Response from:
Maurene Caplan Grey
(07/05/07 7:25am)
Simon, I agree with your sentiments that the shake out will result in major social networks, with interest-specific groups (much like Facebook and even LinkedIn). Moreso, convergence is already underway with the big vendors gobbling up the smaller venders in order to extend their own networks (witness Yahoo's acquisition of Flickr; Google's YouTube; News Corp's MySpace; CBS's Last.fm; eBay's StumbleUpon .... ) -- the ultimate shake-out. However, there will always be single-minded, niche social communities. For example, I'm in the midst of developing a social community for our local township -- the purpose of which is to build citizen interest for a human-based civic advocacy community.
Response from:
Lin
(07/05/07 8:26am)
I believe in the niche social networking sites. People want to "belong" and they don't want the whole world knowing what they're thinking. They only want their group to know. That's why I believe in niche networks, especially for personal things like parenting, illnesses and such.
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Thanks for the link and reading my post.
I see what you're saying about the number of offline networks that one person can participate in - that's a fair point.
But I'm still convinced that niche online networks don't have a sustainable future. By their nature, networks draw users in and demand their time in return for the rewards they get.
I can see a scenario where the big networks absorb the smaller ones, but the niche networks continue to exist within the larger ones - like groups do now on Facebook.
With this scenario people could keep different offline networks in one online place, but quite separately.
It'll be interesting to see how it all shakes out
cheers,
sw