Technogearophilia

To a large extent technology doesn’t change people; it only changes the means and venues of the expression of their basic natures. This is quite evident with the advent of Web 2.0 and social media.

People are people and they gather in the same sort of cliques and self-segregate within the “confines” of social media in the same ways, though often based on different selection criteria, as they did and still do in real life (IRL).

And people often have issues maintaining a balance in their lives and Social Media becomes just another vice in their lives or a replacement expression of a previous vice.

Pick Your Poison

It’s “same old, same, old,” in the digital world because we’re still Humanity 1.0 and nobody has identified an upgrade path for us. So settle in with a cool glass of Facebook and we’ll do a few shot of YouTube later.

Parenting By Numbers – Awwww…How Cute!

Despite the ongoing battle between the major players in the Social Media marketspace, there’s room for all of them because they’re not that similar to each other. They each cater to differing user needs.

What’s important is for the user base to determine which Social Media platform is the right Social Media for them.

Obviously, due to convergence, Twitter is and will continue to be the big winner in the Social Media wars because it can be used in conjunction with all the other offerings. It also seems to be the new weapon in the arsenal of the world’s revolutionaries.