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Social Network Fatigue Coming?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the typing-it-all-over-again dept.

mrspin offers the opinion of ZDNet blogger Steve O'Hear that users may soon tire of social networks — if they don't open up and embrace standards allowing greater interoperability among the different networks. O'Hear writes: "Unless the time required to sign-in, post to, and maintain profiles across each network is reduced, it will be impossible for most users to participate in multiple sites for very long." In an earlier post he went into more detail on the same subject, with extensive opinions from four creators of social networks. A contrary data point comes from the Apophenia blog, in a post noting the tendency among young users to create ephemeral profiles, and not to mind at all if they have to re-enter data. "Teens are not looking for universal anything; that's far too much of a burden if losing track of things is the norm." What does Slashdot think — is data portability among social networking sites a big deal or not?

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  1. Use a common portal then... by vistic · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are efforts being made to consolidate all these social network sites into one, common portal like Optrata (one page to rule them all).

    That may be the key for now, because I doubt any "standard" will develop among different social network sites. (I sure can't imagine how myspace, youtube, facebook, livejournal, orkut, etc. would agree on a standard: they all have their own approaches and problems. Myspace would demand every 1/3 request goes to a "under maintenance" page, still filled with a hundred ads and flash videos and other flash apps to crash your browser... and Orkut would demand every 2/3 requests is a server hiccup.)

  2. Re:IT'S ALL TRUE! by Kris_J · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'm even sick of posting journal entries!
    Your entries have been popping up in the Firehose, and I'm sick of them too.
  3. Re:Relevancy by ScrewMaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, some years ago I used Classmates to find a girl I used to know back in high school (it was three decades ago but what the hell.) Turns out she's still hot and actually available after all these years. Unfortunately I wasn't (hot or available) so I don't know why I bothered in the first place.

    So, yeah, okay. Ten points to Gothmolly.

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  4. Unable to reply by OldManAndTheC++ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too fatigued...

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