Paul's Web Space 2.1

Social Media Proliferation

I'm going a little crazy with all the different social media systems, accounts, applications, etc., which often seem to overlap with each other. I think this really became obvious when I started using Facebook more, where you can increasingly integrate all kinds of applications (including social media ones).

You post your status on Facebook, but you can also update your Twitter status via a facebook app, and both status statement (can) appear on your Facebook profile. One popular application on Facebook is called Causes, but you can also integrate your Change.org profile (which includes changes, organizations, politicians, etc., all things you can support via separate Facebook applications (Causes or US Politics).

On top of all that, Change.org and Facebook are two of many social networks. I probably don't even remember all of the social networks that I have joined, but of course this includes MySpace and LinkedIn, as well as Tribe, Care2, and the Omidyar Network. Managing all of these is a large time sink, and never really accomplished, and of course managing identity in general becomes ever more challenging base upon all of the aforementioned services and hundreds of others. Is OpenID the answer? I plan to start trying to figure that out soon. A speaker at Digial Media Conference I attended a few weeks ago predicted that one of the major coming trends in new media will be a merger or consolidation of social networks, and I don't know if this means actual combination of operations, or more likely, some networking solution that makes integration even more seamless than that afforded by Facebook apps - which is a very cool major step along the way, and I'm sure is poised to take it even further.

Facebook is the new LinkedIn, and Change.org, and Twitter, and Flixter, and Flickr, and....

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Labels: community, facebook, openid, socialmedia, socialnetworks

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