On 6 Aug 2009, at 18:16, HARRIS TONY wrote:
> Although this BBC article claims F.R. is doing quite nicely I
> haven't heard anyone talk about it on MCG for a long time.
Tony Crockford opines:
friends reunited allowed you to find people you'd lost touch with.
(not always a good thing)...
.... and *add* them to Facebook
which gave you a list of people to follow on Twitter....
and then you gradually go back to your normal life....
'Social Networking' is about being in at the beginning and getting out
before *everyone* joins, because when everyone joins it stops being
exciting and becomes mundane, noisy and spammy.
Social Networking is something everyone is trying to make money from,
but IMO there's no real money there.
Conversation is cheap, attention is limited, and we've highly
developed filters, but other people say it better than I ever could:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/08/the-bandwidth-sync-correlation-thats-worth-thinking-about.html
To me, marketing on Twitter, is like busking in the high street. If
you're good and you've got something entertaining you might get a
crowd's attention for a while, but eventually they, or you, will get
bored and move on.
On the other hand, being part of a genuine conversation, well that has
benefit, but it's tenuous and hard to attribute financial worth to.
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