With the news that Facebook might seek a horrendously large buyout in the future…
And that Facebook is facing a lawsuit from another social networker…
I’m wondering stuff.
Things like:
Can the growth in networking/social websites be sustained?
And:
Whatever happened to email and Messenger, how did they become ‘unfashionable’?
And:
How long before the market (consumer) reaches saturation point?
And:
Whatever happened to email and Messenger, how did they become ‘unfashionable’?
And:
Is there a natural age bar to using social network websites?
And:
Whatever happened to email and Messenger, how did they become ‘unfashionable’?
Sigh.
Yes.
I know I’ve repeated the question.
But that’s rather the point.
We have NNTP newsgroups (once considered the mutt’s nuts); individual email (also touted as the dog’s danglers); email mailing lists (an extension of email); websites (text/graphical and searchable); blogs (ditto but interactive too)…
So are social networks really ‘something new’?
Or are they merely a minute functional extension of ‘all of the above’?
Did Web 2.0 begin with blogging and will it end with social networking?
Which raises the question – what are social networking websites for?
Faceparty – one of the earliest social networking websites – has been nicknamed (perhaps unfairly) ‘find-a-shag’.
Certainly Faceparty has an ‘adult’ section to its content.
Is this perhaps what we mean?
Are the words ‘social networking websites’ really just a euphemism for ‘find-a-shag’?
I’m not being snobbish about this.
I’m just trying to understand the…
Need, I suppose.
Yes.
I’m just trying to understand the need.