Why has the number of MySpace visitors remained essentially flat in the past year? Why do social networks fail? Maybe it’s claustrophobic to know this much about other people. Maybe we like the way we’ve been able to live over the past 50 years, the freedom to move where we want, date who we like, and insert ourselves into any number of social cliques, before we cast aside those who bore us and never look back. Independence is a gift, even if it’s lonely sometimes, and solving childhood mysteries may make people happier, but it doesn’t necessarily turn them into the people they dream of being. So we keep perpetuating the cycle of birthing and abandoning new online communities, drawing close and then pulling away, on a perpetual search for the perfect balance of unity and autonomy on the web.
You can click here to read the full article, titled: Do You Own Facebook or Does Facebook Own You? It's not directly related to blogging but it's very interesting and some of the same principles apply.
CJS
1 comment :
Scriven,
I wrote you on Facebook a few weeks ago, in the future I won't do this... If there is an email I can reach you at let me know I had a question for you.
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