The Future of Social Networking
Last night while surfing the web I stumbled upon major news for anyone in the social media scene. Within the past week MySpace, Facebook and Google all announced plans to make social media more portable by opening it up to third parties.
You use one social network as your “main” Profile, connect this profile to other third party sites, and when you update your “main” profile, it updates the info on the third party sites.
With the new Facebook Connect initiative developers will be allowed to make applications that will allow the user to take their social network identity to any partner website. This means you can share more of your online experience with your social network.
For example, you may have submitted a cool post on StumbleUpon, uploaded what you think is going to be a viral video, blogged about the latest gossip at school or just joined a Mini Yacht club online.
I am going to be honest and say that I am a skeptic. The only way I can see this working is if the social network giants will learn to play nice. And if they do kiss and make up, do we want one universal social networking site? Or would we rather have one network for the love of animals, and another for my love of meat?
Israel F. Swanson
Community Development
Eventually, every social network will be connected…and I’m really going to hate it. Yeah, I have an openid account but I really hate how connected sites are right now. And with sites like Spokeo, all people need is my email address and I can’t hide anywhere. Worst of all, with all of these websites, there seems to be even less intelligence going around. It’s more about narcissists and their bathroom mirror photos than anything else.
Comment by Melissa — May 19, 2008 @ 5:02 pm