Comments on: Social networks: the next generation

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By: Faris

Faris — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:05:08 +0000

Totally agree with your multiplicity – I called distributed identity but I think we’re in the same place

http://farisyakob.typepad.com/blog/2007/05/distributed_ide.html

The Parks research shows people already tend to use multiple networks – although calling users unfaithful misses the point

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article1984032.ece

As you point out, different networks have different roles and we can express different parts of ourselves in different places.

Welcome to the Plannersphere Ning!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:43:11 +0000

Social networks online (described as 2nd life networks above) result in lots of people knowing that lots of other people exist. But is that enough? If these people do not really know each other what real value can come from these networks. I am a member of Ecademy which aims to help you build ‘trusted’ networks of business contacts who, because they are able to engage through clubs and other forums on line, begin to better understand the way each other think and operate.

It is my experience that only when the 1st and 2nd life meet face to face can the best opportunities of these newly “inhaled” networks be properly realised. Therefore in my opinion, 2nd life networks should be seen as part of your real life. Only when online social networks are seen as an integral part of our real life will the true benefits of these networks be understood. And not just understood by millions of individuals on a ‘life-journey’, but also understood by organisations/brands who understand the value of engaging in ‘right time, right place’ relationships with their audiences.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:32:28 +0000

I once sat down to estimate how many people I have met in my two decades of professional consulting, and, just counting business cards, I easily got to more than 10,000 people. I have lost contact with most of these folks as I and they have moved on. One of the great advantages of Linked-In and similar social networking sites is that they potentially enable us to keep in touch with such people without having to contact them individually at each change of employer or profession. This benefit will only become clear to us with time, as we all move along in life, and are able to track each other’s life movements indirectly, via the blackboard that is Linked-In.

By: Tom Guarriello

Tom Guarriello — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:11:58 +0000

I’ve been involved in a Ning network for the past couple of months and don’t see enough “meta” in it to do what I want done: somebody give me a place to centralize my access to my Flickr, YouTube, blog, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Netflix, etc., etc., lives. Now I hear that PersonalAggregator will do that. I don’t know, I guess I’m looking for a “one ring to rule them all…” kind of place. I’ll bet Google’s hard at work on this right now.

But we’re not there yet. And, if we were, would the security issues freak us all out?

By: jens

jens — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:35:25 +0000

on second thought i might also add that the logic and mechanisms of “what you like is what you are like” as a solid, clear and consciously accepted foundation of social interaction will probably change our world in an unprecedented way. – think of all the kids that grow up with designing their my-space sites… – perception of kinship and creation of bonds will more than ever before be linked to creative self expression and the deciphering of this. – it is just one notch up in our individualized society. and a couple of notches down for the dominance of prefabricated meaning through branding as we know it.

By: jens

jens — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:32:02 +0000

the web the way it is now provides a meta-structure that enables you to get in contact with a bunch of people that you like – whose work, taste, consumption profiles etc. etc. you like – and that (therefore) are eventually a lot like you. – the sociological wisdom expressed in the phrase “what you like is what you are like” will become / has become a trusted vehicle to identify kinship and to establish bonds. – also in this sense the world is becoming flat. – also in the ‘real’ world people are more likely to introduce themselves to an artist, author or designer for example when they feel really touched by his work — regardless of distance created by fame or glamor. — and that will eventually call for a newly refined order and for new ways of establishing and protecting privacy… – because perceived kinship can sometimes be a one-sided projection, especially when it is overwritten by personal ambition… and people are increasingly making also bad experiences with this.

but the saddest downside of leveraging social networking too much into the real world is nicely expressed in the famous quote of the composer jean sibelius:
“only with bankers you can talk about art. – artists always talk about money.”
kinship makes the world cozy. contrasts make the world interesting.

By: Asi

Asi — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:30:10 +0000

multiple selves were always a part of our personalities. years before the social networking sites revolution people view themselves as both different and similar across social roles (e.g., parent, friend, worker, amateur fisherman, football fan etc).

the 2.0 revolution enabled us to engage with people far beyond our first-life circles and reproduce our selves on a larger scale. However, I’m not sure that Ning is a meta-network. for me it’s more a platform to create / personalise / own your social network. but in it’s essence, it is no difference to the various groups on facebook or communities on myspace.

Personally I feel that the (still) novelty of this creates a somewhat neurotic dynamics where people are joining new networks at the pace they change their bedsheets. is there any value here?

By: steve

steve — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:51:15 +0000

I wonder how much of this online networking and meta-networking is the sole domain of extroverts and exhibitionists. Or at least people who aren’t worried about imposing on others or boring them or whatever. I have enough trouble staying in touch with the people with whom I’m already acquainted–why would I want to multiply that problem a zillion-fold? And if most of those web-mediated links to others aren’t really a problem, because they just sit there inertly and never get used, then why would anyone need them? All of this is by way of wondering whether the entire space isn’t another version of the CB radio fad–fun for a while, but eventually clogged with noise and then exited by all but a small hard-core.