Comments on: Social Networks Shrink, But It's Not What You Think

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By: 10 Top Web Tools for Freelancers « WordCount/by Michelle Vranizan Rafter

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By: link - building

link - building — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:58:16 +0000

Hi,
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By: Lolagrrl

Lolagrrl — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:41:41 +0000

Great Blog Post!
I spend way too much time thinking about SocNets and I often think we are approaching a saturation point (if we haven’t already). As a user with multiple accounts on multiple sites, I see two things happening:
1) The tolerance for receiving and accepting invites has worn thin.
2) Sites that require less input in order to get interaction (Twitter, Pownce, etc.) is growing. The irony of it all!!!

I actually started an experiment of sorts with SocNets called “Where’s My Monkey.” The whole goal on my part is to create a SocNet in an attempt to unite all SocNets. I don’t ask for participation… all I really ask for is that our users help us spread the word by putting our badge on their other sites. In addition, we take our SocNet’s persona and put him on other sites as well. It’s been interesting but time consuming.

The funniest part is that the initial reaction we get is, “(SIGH) You want me to join ~another~ Social Network?”

How many of these things can truly exist before the whole thing goes the way of the dot com bust?
… and who will be the survivors this time?

Sorry for the long comment… Ya got me thinking. =)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:47:34 +0000

I think the growth will be in the use of smaller, more focused, niche social networks that cater to a particular interest, hobby or vocation. These smaller sites will allow like-minded individuals and groups to connect, exchange ideas and receive genuine and useful support.

These kinds of sites will also be attractive to advertisers as they get targeted demographics to spend their online advertising budgets on.

Thanks to sites such as ning, anyone can start a niche social network about anything. There’s also a search engine to help find niche social networks that lists thousands of networks for a whole range of subjects, http://findasocialnetwork.com