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Originally Posted by munki
It's revolutionary in that everyone can now contribute, on any level, pretty much anywhere... The shape of the internet is being controlled by the masses... and they've decided that this...
are the future...
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Lol. But it reminds of me back in the 90's. I started a computer store and our big claim to fame was in-home setup as computers were actually hard to set up back then. You could tell people all about the features and what they could do on their computer and their faces would glaze over. But when you slipped a music CD in and it played they thought it was the coolest thing ever. I have no idea why, but I saw that over and over again.
I think it's a very similar thing with social networking. It seems cool because people don't really understand the internet and that myspace is actually not really a big deal. What it did do though is make communication over the internet something that regular people do, not just nerds.
I think some mix of networking and mobile devices could be truly revolutionary. But what we have right now isn't anywhere close to what it is being hyped as.