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    ar>   Re: Facebook And Twitter   
    ar>   By: The Millionaire to art on Thu Feb 02 2012 13:39:04   
      
    ar> Hey $$$$$$$$$,   
      
    >   Re: Facebook And Twitter   
      
    ar> I am as guilty as the next person of posting meaningless updates. I try   
    ar> not to, but it happens. I'm seeing a trend of less and less valuable   
    ar> communications coming via Facebook and Twitter: does anyone else feel   
    ar> the same way? I would be interested in exploring this degradation if   
    ar> anyone also works in this industry.   
      
   Actually I don't see any real discussions on Facebook at all. I see a lot of   
   adds and political stuff and I see a lot of people who are not really computer   
   folks who otherwise probably wouldn't be using those kinds of services if they   
   weren't so easy and popular. I'm not trying to say computer people are better   
   than anyone else but I didn't see these same types of people (my friends) using   
   BBSs when I was long ago and certainly weren't interested in such things prior   
   to computing popularity explosions. Facebook as you pointed out is a nice face   
   on what is otherwise an old idea that has been around for a long time. On   
   Facebook I see a lot of is pictures of their children or bumper sticker type   
   pictures and little comments on those. No real content or discussions, nothing   
   like the potential it could have to really bring large groups of people   
   together and possible innovate or solve issues. I think one part of the problem   
   is the actual friend request and stigmata associated with the friends thing.   
   Friends and the amount of a persons friends is similar to societal status   
   symbol or a class type system. So if all your friends abandon you based on the   
   content you provide this causes the fear of real content or discussion for want   
   of agreement or likability.   
      
   I've never felt a need for popularity on a BBS and it certainly wasn't on   
   display for everyone to see: person X has 4000 friends therefore they must be   
   important and worthy of my ear or attention.    
      
    ar> As for the "next big thing". I believe it will be a new social network   
    ar> phenomenon called "SyncHack". It will replace FaceBook, Google+,   
   What is SyncHack?    
    ar> Twitter and Linked In because it will be labelled a "turnkey,   
    ar> best-of-breed enterprise 2.0 solution".   
      
    ar> :)   
      
       
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