Social Networks Pushing Too Hard

With the insane success of Facebook (now 500 million accounts and 140 million uniques a month) and the decent success of Twitter (close to 20 million uniques a month) everyone wants to be the next Mark Zuckerberg.  Now with Google rumors floating the idea of a new social network apply named “Google Me” in the works, we need to ask ourselves do we really want another social network?

Social Success

Any social network relies on one extremely important element to it’s success.  NUMBERS!  There is no point to be the lone user on a social platform.  In fact the integrity, power, and future use of a network can easily be measured by it’s current accounts and it’s ability to grow.

If we rewind to 2  years ago we’d see several versions of similar social networks competing for market share.  Facebook v MySpace or Twitter v Tumblr, etc…  Now we can easily see a natural progression to one single network in each genre.  Facebook and Twitter clearly being th [...]
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Date : 2010-07-21 15:30:17
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