Social networking sites are like nightclubs?

[randomness]

marginaleye, referencing the MySpace to Facebook to Google+ trend: "I fear, however, the horrible possibility that social networking is going to be a perpetual treadmill of pursuing the 'in crowd' and fleeing prole drift, stretching out from here to infinity."

Well, it is how clubbing seems to go. Some dance clubs do last a while, but the crowd does seem to follow the trendiest new place. So there is some social precedent here.

I suppose if one was creating a social networking site one might keep that particular dynamic in mind.

Comments

[dpolicar]

If I were creating a social networking site, I would design it with a distributed open-access data model, such that people could create and use new apps/front ends without needing to "migrate," and could adopt a best-of-breed approach across multiple apps without having to keep recreating the social network data.