Social Networking has Gone Too Far

[c9]

It's happening on all sorts of sites, not just this Microsoft one, but their approach creates a perfect screenshot for why the whole world has gone insane.



http://blogs.technet.com/mslcommunity/archive/2009/03/16/get-on-the-bus.aspx

Comments

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

yeah, but honestly... out of ALL of those:

social
msdn
technet
expression
backflip
blinkbits
blogmemes
buddymark
complore
del.icio.us
del.irio.us
digg
dotnetkicks
facebook
furl
live
magnolia
netvouz
reddit
shadow
spurl
technorati
wists
yahoo


who actually uses more than a few? how many has anyone actually HEARD of??

i see a few Big Names 2.0 up there, but otherwise, what a list of crap. why even bother? you can tell they're not focused on targeting specific posting and social sites to _really_ drive up pageviews... i mean, you can cast a big net like that, but it ends up being a big waste of time.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Oh totally, and I really don't mean to target this team -- they build courses I teach and they could use all the help they can get! -- but they sure are taking it to the extreme. Even newspapers, in their flailing attempts to survive, have done lists like this. It's crazy.

Thanks for pulling the source and naming them all for everyone - your patience will be rewarded some day! :)