Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Social sites becoming too much of a good thing / Many young folks burning out on online sharing

From the San Francisco Chronicle, an article on social networking burnout:
Social sites becoming too much of a good thing / Many young folks burning out on online sharing

Apparently many social networkers with accounts on multiple sites find that maintaining their online presence in so many places is exhausting. It'll be interesting to see how much consolidation takes place. In the meantime, if your friends are divided amongst several sites, it could be challenging. Maybe what we need is some kind of mashup to connect MySpace, Friendster, TagWorld, Facebook, etc., into one big social space, kind of like the way Meebo lets you consolidate all your instant messaging accounts in one convenient place. Give it time...

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