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Meeting or Getting to Know New People - Overrated

This is another short post related to my previous post in the past about the analysis of the real value of social network (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) in getting to know new people.

The result is: overrated.

At some level, a continuous and real life interaction is necessary to create a “bond” or whatever it’s to allow each people to care about each other.

If these people do have common interest and similar way of thinking, this maybe possible. But the chance for that to happen, or even the chance for each people to realize that they’re similar is quite slim.

Let’s say hypothetically, these people with similar interests and goals are separated by distance. They also have the chance to not care about each other due to circumstances in real life events that they can’t ignore.

At some point, real life events or demands will separate people. So this is no different whatever the medium of communication is.

There has to be a very strong motivation and commonality of interest to gather people on the Internet such as social network to care about each other.

Open source projects such as Linux, Ruby on Rails, Adium, Growl, cocos2d, and those projects organized by Google are good examples of this. I tend to view such important software projects as a very strong motivator for each of its developers to care about each other on the Internet.

Although, among those big and important projects, lots are organized and maintained by individuals with low level of involvement from other people besides the lead developer or maintainer. As it’s the case with non-profit community projects in real life.

Although it does its function in the case of getting connected with people that I already know, but I don’t see any fun in doing that. The social network platform or the internet has so much more potential than that.

Revised: Twitter is not a relationship-based social network, so I could not include them in this analysis. Because that’s what Twitter is, just like a blog or website.

Saturday, March 13, 2010 — 1 note


I’m so familiar with these people :-).

I’m so familiar with these people :-).

Tuesday, March 9, 2010


Where’s LinkedIn in this graph? buzzandersen: Social Software Narcissism/Utility Graph (via ztaylor) Drawn by Brad O’Neill for his post “Is There a Magic Zone of Narcissistic Utility?” This seems like a pretty reasonable unified field theory of social software to me. In my opinion, for example, Twitter has come to achieve a near perfect balance of the two axes, while Foursquare is going to have to shift themselves further to the right on the utility axis if they’re going to grow and have an appeal that outlasts the narcissistic appeal of their game mechanics.

Where’s LinkedIn in this graph?

buzzandersen:

Social Software Narcissism/Utility Graph

(via ztaylor)

Drawn by Brad O’Neill for his post “Is There a Magic Zone of Narcissistic Utility?” This seems like a pretty reasonable unified field theory of social software to me. In my opinion, for example, Twitter has come to achieve a near perfect balance of the two axes, while Foursquare is going to have to shift themselves further to the right on the utility axis if they’re going to grow and have an appeal that outlasts the narcissistic appeal of their game mechanics.

Sunday, March 7, 2010 — 132 notes


fuckyeahmath: juliasmola: A breakdown of user’s ages on different “social networks” Analyzing this graphic, it’s obvious that the social network who prioritize on friendships will have more teenage users compared to those which promote connections like LinkedIn. In my opinion, Twitter is a merge between the two. Because Twitter allows any type of connections. While LinkedIn is heavily focused on professional, serious, and impersonal relationships.

fuckyeahmath:

juliasmola:

A breakdown of user’s ages on different “social networks”

Analyzing this graphic, it’s obvious that the social network who prioritize on friendships will have more teenage users compared to those which promote connections like LinkedIn.

In my opinion, Twitter is a merge between the two. Because Twitter allows any type of connections. While LinkedIn is heavily focused on professional, serious, and impersonal relationships.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 — 166 notes


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