Hi Katie, I think you are exactly right about the potential here. While I have benefited greatly by participating in social networks for years they have always been professional in nature. I also spend considerable time attempting to evaluate the business potential of these social innovations (sorry, its an occupational hazard). I have found folks in the last few years sing facebook, myspace and even blogging that were long forgotten. I have a terrible tendency towards the 'out of sight - out of mind' syndrome. Where letters and phone calls just don't work for me, the instant nature nature of chat, texting and the current generation of social networks work for me. I have yet to dive into twitter... I just can't imagine that my mutterings or mundane observations would be of any interest to someone as I broadcast them. It may be a case of taking things a bit to far... but this is how we find these things out. And it may in fact, not be too much minutia as we learn to filter for relevance and context. The elimination of geography and time in socially connecting is proving quite valuable and will no doubt have a profound effect on us going forward. Cool stuff.
Mark On Dec 15, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Katie Ware wrote: > Oh I think it's way more than entertainment. It's huge in how it is > changing the way people communicate and interact with each other. > And I'm speaking a little broader here - facebook in general vs. > just the statuses. I have been able to start a dialogue with my > niece on FB when she would never pick up the phone and call me. I'm > "fb friends" with people I haven't seen in years and now know quite > a bit about their current lives. It's redefining what relationships > are. > > Of course, it's not all about facebook - these things can happen > other ways online, but it is an interesting laboratory to see these > shifts. > > >>> One other caveat about this stuff that I always remind >>> myself. ...> "First and foremost for me it is entertainment. It >>> is he reality TV show I> get to "watch" 24/7 about all the >>> connected (ie. digitally connected) people> in my life."> > It >>> includes tweets, flicks, facebook statuses, irovrs and more.> > >>> But it is still entertainment.> > Yes, people are trying to find >>> business models out of it, but to me it is> just plain old good >>> fun w/ people I like &/or have respect for.> > -- dave> > _________________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
