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On 17 Jul 2007, at 11:10, Richard Davey wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 10:44:44 AM, you wrote:
>
>> Is it just me, or does anyone else here just switch off at the
>> mention of the next social networking site?  I know a lot of you are
>
> Aren't most sites social in some way? :)
>
> I wanted to try Pownce for the closed-group file sharing aspect,
> nothing more really. For me that is where it is useful.
>

Oh, I'm not arguing some of these sites don't have nice features, its  
more just a case of I really can't be arsed anymore to check any of  
them out.  God, I think I might be starting to sound like Steve (Roome).

>> It seems like the IM situation a few years back... now I use Adium
>> (or any other meta-IM client) that communicates with all, so I don't
>> really care or even know which IM network my friends are on.
>
> I'd wager it's a little deeper than that - you probably use Adium
> because it's a truly beautiful piece of software. I bet if it was a
> giant dog turd of an application (with no suitable alternative) you
> would then settle on which-ever IM was the largest common denominator
> used by your friends, or possibly even run a couple of them.
>
> I think social sites are similar, right now as you said there are a
> mass of them all with slightly different features. But give it a few
> years, the wheat will be sorted from the chaff, and we'll see
> consolidation until perhaps finally we're left with a social network
> site equivalent of Adium. In the meantime we'll collect a mass of
> logins across a mass of sites, or just ignore them altogether :)
>

Yeah, I'm working on the latter at the moment.  Wake me up when we  
get there. ;)

-Matt

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