The Social Networking revolution is just getting started

Social networks; by now even our parents are aware of them. In fact many of them even have their own profiles (even my mom signed up to Facebook 2 days ago). The billions of daily page views on these networks mostly go to viewing pictures, writing on walls and, as research has shown, dating. But what I’d like to focus on is what doesn’t happen on social networks. There has to be so much more then merely browsing photos and sending messages.

See, I believe we’re only at the beginning of the social networking revolution.  Now that they have the users and tons of traffic, what will happen next? How can we, the user, benefit from our social network? And above all, what will keep social networks on top of the food chain?

I believe that a form of social bookmarking should be at the core of each social network. As a user you want to tap into the collective mind of your friends or peers. You want to be able to search through your own tips/bookmarks when you go out for dinner, but it really gets interesting if you can search through the knowledge of all your friends when, after all, most people trust their friends when making a decision. Basically you and your network are building your own search engine which gives you filtered results on your queries from your friends (this is what we wanted to go after with Fleck). You might argue that this is already happening on Facebook, people share knowledge and links, but you only have to look at twitter to see its a far better knowledge sharing platform than Facebook – in its current state at least. In this light, this is probably one of the many reasons Facebook bought Friendfeed, not a bad move if you want people to share more of their knowledge. [The Next Web]

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