Finalmente, algo en contra de las redes sociales / Finally, something against social networks.

Wednesday December 05th 2007, 4:28 pm
Filed under: General, Tecnologí­a

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Finally, I read an article from someone talking against social networks, and I really agree. Personally, I’ve been never much into this whole thing about social networks. As the article says, it seems to be a whole lot of people who don’t know why or what for they’re “together”. It reminds me of the horizontal portals from the web early years, which tried to be everything, but in the end were nothing. And beyond the creative or technological achievements, there’s always a need for a working business model, but it seems like there’s not (at least not where they’re looking for).
Don’t take me wrong, is not that I’m all against social networks, as a matter of fact I have my Facebook profile (although is more because of a work matter, as we’re developing a Facebook applications to interact with one of my company’s applications), and I even have a personal project (don’t really know if it’ll be ever released someday!) based on the social network idea.
But I believe, after seeing what happened with horizontal portals, that social network should also put their aim in specific niches. An example could be LinkedIn, which try to create links between professional people within the same area of expertise, and it seems to work, as a friend of mine company recently obtained a lucrative contract with an European company through LinkedIn. But Facebook wants to be everything, have profiles for the whole world population, and applications of any type. Let’s see how it goes.

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