Social Networking in the Digital Age
Posted by Unknown on 23 March 2004 - 11:06 · 6 comments & 650 views
It used to be if you wanted to win more friends, influence more people or make more money, you bought one of those self-improvement tomes and tried to pump up your personality. These days, all you have to do is go online and join a "social networking" site. The pumping will be done for you. If you haven’t yet heard of social networking, stay tuned because it’s the Next Big Thing. New Economy magazine Business 2.0 named it "technology of the year" for 2003, and venture capitalists have started throwing money at social networking startups with a zeal not seen since the first generation of dot-coms came down the pike.

Don’t be surprised if a year from now your everyday conversation is peppered with references to Friendster, Spoke, Ryze, LinkedIn, Tribe.net, ZeroDegrees — or to other sites not yet launched. The phenomenon is new and it’s hot, but it has a very old soul. In fact, the process that drives social networking is found at the heart of all societies and civilizations: the human need to make common cause, to cooperate with others of the species to achieve a whole variety of goals and meet a whole variety of needs — physical, emotional, social, economic, political.

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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Simon- on 23 Mar 2004 - 11:36
It sounds like the place where AOLers go when they are not on AOL
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by YaZoR on 23 Mar 2004 - 11:44
yea whatever
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by x2cube on 23 Mar 2004 - 12:57
maybe it'd be cooler if there was CHEESE!! Yes... brilliant!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by naap51stang on 23 Mar 2004 - 13:14
Good grief.........what is this crap again about social groupISM..........
Just a bunch of low selfesteim (sp) people who think that if they have "friends"
with certain things, then they will be more popular.
I see it every day.....they have to drive a certain type car, wear a certain type
of clothes, live in a certain area.
LOL, I've had people I know (note I didn't use the word friends), ask me why
I drive a mustang........ummmm.......gee.....I don't know, maybe because I
LIKE THEM? I thought you would be driving an SUV.........LOL......nothing
against SUV's.....more power to you if that is what YOU want to drive, but
sorry........I'd rather drive a sports car. I don't off road (whoops, 99% of
SUV'ers don't either), we don't get much snow for the 4x4 aspect, I don't
haul kids to ballgames. I like the car I drive because I like it.......simple
enough.
These networking groups will come and go........like so many "in crowd"
bars/nighclubs.......

(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by brundlefry on 23 Mar 2004 - 16:54
Sounds like a con artist's heaven!

These online social networking groups will fail. The reason? Trust.

The need for eye contact, nonverbal communication, etc. to establish trust is too great among our species.

Unless we can have holograms or some such online... (even then, how do you know who you're interacting with isn't an avatar of some kind?)
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by mram on 23 Mar 2004 - 21:03
Great point. In today's world, trust is usually established through reputation. Actions do speak louder than words. People have a general guarded philosophy now anyway.

Do you have any reason to believe what I'm saying? No, of course not. But after a while, if we were in a social network, you'd develop an opinion. And for most, that's good enough.
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