Comments on: Please, Please, Stop With the Social Networking

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:59:13 +0000

Oh yeah, preach it brother! I could not agree more. I never understood the appeal of the whole social networking thing.

Maybe we’re just too INTP or something.

By: Dave Durand

Dave Durand — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:01:24 +0000

Yes, it has become a bit of a fad to have a social network…and everyone wants to hop on the MySpace bandwagon. The thing is, I truly believe there are ways to improve upon it to make it work, especially if it is being incorporated into an already solid business model. It’s still a fairly new concept in the grand scheme of things, and will evolve over time. I don’t think they will come and go like pixel ads or anything.

By: Scott Rafer

Scott Rafer — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:21:45 +0000

We’re not necessarily asking you to be more social. We’re suggesting that you take a couple minutes to get to know your readers better. Our most basic offer is a click-tracking system that lets you know what your users click on to leave your site and what they are reading elsewhere in our 20,000 blog network. In addition, you can encourage your readers to fill out profiles so that you know your readers even better. Does that make grounded business sense?

By: Casey Carpenter

Casey Carpenter — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:11:49 +0000

Cant these people stop with all this now. How much more social can the net be. I dont want to have to be social all the time, I dont want to have 30 logins to chat with my friends.

I think companies should stick to their core business and not jump on this sinking ship. Social networks are cool in some regards but they get boring in the long run.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:00:18 +0000

Nice. I agree that it’s really a feature. Sure, some people like it, maybe most, but there is way too much hoopla around it these days.

By: COD

COD — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:02:20 +0000

I wrote this in Jan 04
//…You heard it here first…well maybe not first, but you did hear it here….social software will be a total bust from a financial perspective. It’s only a matter of time before one of these services rolls out a sock puppet as its mascot.//

Community was on the “4 Cs” of web design we preached to clients back in 1996. It’s a feature, not a business.

It’s nice to be right once in a while