Social networking sites are like nightclubs?

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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.

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[dirque.livejournal.com]

Both FB and google+ is about the ease of finding and adding people. LJ assumes they'll find you if they really try.

While I don't think Google+ is a winner- their graphic design is atrocious- it always lacks that final polish. I think it's good enough to destroy the one social network to rule them model. To me G+ is too much like FM calculator watches.

It tells time! It calculates! I can listen to the radiooooooo.

But is it something grandma would use?