What’s Old Is New Again
A thought provoking post by Stephen Fry called Social networking through the ages. He observes that many of the modern social networking websites constitute a return to the old fashioned closed networks (like AOL) of years ago. For what is Facebook, but a Friends Reunited for the Web 2.0 generation?
I guess that’s why they’re called revolutions – they always come round again.
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January 15th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
“For what is Facebook, but a Friends Reunited for the Web 2.0 generation?”
I’ve always thought that.
No one talks about FR anymore. You have to PAY for that!!!
January 15th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I did pay, but only for one year.
January 15th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
But wouldn’t a ‘return’ signal that at some point that wasn’t the case?
The entire history of the internet since its release to the public domain has been the continued evolution of social networking… the old BBSes, Usenet, forums, chat rooms, blogs. Each one has been a continued step onward towards where we are now.
The problem in predicting such things is that for every ‘facebook’ and myspace there are 101 other sites that offer similar sites with virtually identical features that never take off.
The key is not knowing where the technology is heading, but who is going to have the most popular implementation of it.
January 15th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I don’t think that was the point of that particular post. We all know social networking is nothing new, just a buzzword for a fundamental aspect of human behaviour and function of the Internet.
I thought it was more of a humourous observation that we rush into enclosed spaces, only to rush back out (in the physical world too). Repeat ad infinitum.
Personally, I prefer to be out here in the wild
January 16th, 2008 at 4:01 am
Link you might like : http://www.design-police.org/
“microsoft word is not a design tool”
January 16th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Haha nice. I could use a pack of “illegible” stickers…