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05 Mar On Sunday night, I went out with a friend and two of her friends and for some reason we ended up talking about online social networks. My friend said that she's not on Facebook and doesn't see the need to as Friendster already has all the things that Facebook has like applications and stuff. The girl sitting next to me was telling me that she has accounts on both Friendster and Facebook, but uses them for entirely different reasons. She sees Facebook as more formal, to see who is friends with whom. She uses Friendster for all her friends and other random contacts, and puts up photos of herself and her friends at parties and other things. Apparently she is friends with Government Minister's kids, so they think that Friendster is more safe than Facebook to put photos they don't want to be found on the internet. I just wonder how many other people keep their lives 'separate' on the different social networks that aren't specifically eg for making business contacts like LinkedIn. Is this a common phenomenon?
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March 6th my usage is like so...
LinkedIn = business contacts only Facebook = i have an account and have a few friends but am not very active Gooruze = online marketing talk Minti = parenting talk  Reply
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March 5th I would think that this is absolutely a common phenomenon.
There's another post on Gooruze "Get a Social Life" that also explores this issue. We most also consider that 80% of the world's population isn't connected to the internet, so online networking still has limited potential. Also, many research reports have continually pointed out that in general the internet is the province of relatively "rich and well educated" users. In fact many people still confine their networks to a rolodex and Dayrunner.. And, other research keeps pointing out that most online users are still trying to figure out how to properly use their email and browser clients. Those of us who work professionally in the online area are always in danger of forgetting these facts. As somebody said elsewhere on Gooruse "We need to get over ourselves." "Soical networks" are still very much at the start of the bell curve, the crazies and early adopter stage. And many of us crazies are now starting to question if we in fact have too many online social networks. At the moment they are still cool and fashionable, but once they move into the early majority stage of the bell curve, then the "coolness" will be gone and we'll be into something else. Reply
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