Social networking 2008
April 14th, 2008 by Black
twitter.com, digg.com, linkedin.com, xing.com, hi5.com, myspace.com, facebook.com … all these websites seem to be quite trendy. You hear about them each day, people are using these websites as a way to communicate, to get in contact, to share thoughts. All of these, plus blogging is just a part of what is generically called web 2.0. But is this something real? Is everybody going nuts? Is everybody trying to communicate in other ways than the regular email and instant messaging ? Why should I use twitter to tell everyone what am I doing? Do I have the time to do this? Why should you use digg.com? I mean, do you even understand something when you go to this website frontpage? What is it all about? Just a bunch of links and a way to comment on some news. Websites like hi5 or myspace.com or facebook.com even requests your yahoo username and password so they can automatically connect with your friends (read it like this: spam your friends). Isn’t this a security risk? What if someone breaks into their servers and gains access to so much login information?
Anyway, I personally think that all these new web services are for the people who either have too much free time and no actual “first life” or for someone who wants to reach those people and try to sell them something! It will be a very sad world when everyone will be online, directly connected to everything! Will you still notice that it’s spring again, that the trees are green and the flowers are blooming? Unfortunately we are turning into these online connected machines, with no real personality but with a full virtual life.
Starting today you can follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/cristianbadea
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you are right, one of the reasons that we are short of free time is spending to much being online
a lot of people I know spent at least 1 hour per day writing or reading blogs
It seems like the young people (and not only) have an increasingly need to picture or to make from himself a character.
On the other hand, as a great man of the past centuries said: “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate…”
When will you use Facebook?