posted on Sunday, October 07, 2007 9:17 AM by paul

Fakebook

The Fakebook Generation

The Web is our Social Network, sites like Facebook are a throw back to the days of AOL.  All the buzz about valuation and acquisition have come from the Silicon Valley money tree bloggers who wouldn't know innovation if it hit them in the face.

For our Web to succeed we need to work on three things; Identity, Tagging and Attention. 

Sites like Facebook, MySpace and SecondLife might tell us they have a few million Users, but their not going to tell us their the same million people.

Digitally doodling within a gated community is just distracting us from what needs to be accomplished as a world wide web community.

 

Comments

# re: Fakebook @ Sunday, October 07, 2007 4:59 PM

SING IT BROTHER!

It feels like the friggin' wilderness out here. I have been saying the same thing about community blogs that act as mini-gated : they'll never be new media by themselves.

The sauce is in the users, in how we go from blog to blog and from social site to social site; creating our own social maps and networks.

Focusing on the user or netizen as opposed to the property is the way to go. Gated sites, whether it's Facebook or the next blog community, does not a network make.

Liza Sabater