blog.jimbo.org.uk - Comments on Social Notworking http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/archives/2006/07/social_notworki.shtml en-gb Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:39:16 +0000 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:33:20 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 jkg@jimbo.org.uk 180 By Kyle Social networking - as with message boards, unless it's heavily modded, it's kind of pointless. And for all the joys of cohesive contact management, I still don't see why we can't just use email or IM or what have you. Much as FriendsReunited et all want us to think otherwise, I dont think many of us are likely to rekindle or spark up strong friendships with people from school/uni/wherever that we've managed to happily drift away from after spending however much time knowing them.... Bebo is, by the way, over-rated crap. All it really boils down to is profiles, picture sharing and leaving a million messages for each other, all of which can be done via less gaudy interfaces on other sites. However, there's some Korean site that's probably the first SN to actually generate money - see El Reg for further info. So once the buggers start generating revenue we'll be stuck with them for good. You know, I miss the days when most sites on the net didn't actually generate revenue and weren't even trying to... http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/archives/2006/07/social_notworki.shtml#c3199 3199:143@http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/ Social networking - as with message boards, unless it's heavily modded, it's kind of pointless. And for all the joys of cohesive contact management, I still don't see why we can't just use email or IM or what have you. Much as FriendsReunited et all want us to think otherwise, I dont think many of us are likely to rekindle or spark up strong friendships with people from school/uni/wherever that we've managed to happily drift away from after spending however much time knowing them....

Bebo is, by the way, over-rated crap. All it really boils down to is profiles, picture sharing and leaving a million messages for each other, all of which can be done via less gaudy interfaces on other sites. However, there's some Korean site that's probably the first SN to actually generate money - see El Reg for further info. So once the buggers start generating revenue we'll be stuck with them for good. You know, I miss the days when most sites on the net didn't actually generate revenue and weren't even trying to...

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