The Next Social Network
Posted on January 19, 2008 by Ben Cecka
No more new social networks, ok? The idea of having to continually register for the next big thing with a better service just doesn’t seem like an attractive idea to me anymore. Being on the edge was fun for a time, but in the long term is just a major pain in managing my online identity.
Instead, I’m hoping that we reach a day when the agreed upon social network is a standard one and universal. To a large degree I think it already exists today as Google. I’m of the frame of mind that you should come to me to find out what I’m up to because when I have to update ten services to make that happen it becomes impractical. Through syndication and a good search engine this isn’t asking too much and certainly doesn’t mean that one would have to come directly to my site — ever.
I happily killed my MySpace account last year, and I’m hanging on the button with Facebook right now.
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