A lot of the rhetoric surrounding the more popular social networking sites such as FaceBook, MySpace and Bebo seems to be related to the more negative factors such as identity theft, threats to children, breahes in privacy of personal data and copyright theft. Now FaceBook and the others have a new threat to contend with. A recent new item in The Register (an interesting little online journal with the tag line 'biting the hand that feed IT') suggests that large sections of the previously avid social networking population are feeling a little bored about poking each other, throwing sheep and sharing their favourite movies, iPod downloads or party tricks. Apparently they are leaving in .... well, droves. Makes you wonder where they are actually going to get their online kicks.
So I guess now we all have to wait to see what the next killer social web application will be. Whatever it is will probably assail our senses and grab our attention, subscriptions and precious spare time all over again, as we all queue up in our neat little rows to join up in case we might be missing something. Where will it all end?
Probably in tiers.
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