Cringely: Antisocial: Social Networking is Just Another CB Radio

Robert X. Cringely:

What will likely happen to social networking is that some applications will survive on a more modest basis than now (used by the trucker equivalents), others will morph into some new Next Big Thing as their more compelling sub-applications take over, and true hard-core social networkers will jump to more advanced technologies that eliminate the riff-raff. In the meantime, 70 percent or so of most social networking functionality — the really useful functionality — will be sucked into the dominant portal/search/e-mail/chat/social networks like MSN and Yahoo.

March 7, 2008 by Uncategorized 1

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1 Response

  1. Chuck says:
    March 7, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    insightful
    This guy is right. The “twitter / facebook / digg / librarything” is t3h s41t crowd is wrong.

    That is all.

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