More on Social Networking

Just as enterprises and communications vendors enthusiastically embrace social networking into their product base comes the backlash. Starting to see articles about the 20 something generation giving up on Twitter and Facebook. Too demanding (duh!). Why would anyone want to spend their day constantly checking Facebook or Twittering their breakfast? Who would want to follow such drivel?

And some young folks are starting to figure it out... there is a life beyond communications immediacy. They are giving it up.

Wonder if it has anything to do with the revival of vinyl records... Yep, lots of releases, found even in mainstream stores such as Fred Meyer, on record... real records! CDs are dead, downloads are dying. Vinyl lives! Curious.

Personally, I have nothing against CDs. I have tons of old records and no matter how well cared for, they still provide annoying clicks, pops, and wear. Of course, CDs, perfect forever, are exploited by producers using every computer trick in the book to mangle digital data into overly compressed and squashed dynamic range music releases that tire the ears by the second cut.

No wonder the flight from digital music. Analog sources (reel to reel tape has an enthusiastic following as well) are just more comfortable to listen to, noise issues aside.

I'm waiting for my Princess phone to command a premium price on Ebay. Cell phones and VoIP with their interference and drop outs are doomed to their own backlash as analog phone lines and equipment become prized possessions.

Social Networking in the Enterprise

A recent voicecon email concerned itself with social networking as enterprise communications. How to use Twitter and Facebook to maintain (sell to) customers. I'm thinking, this is how interesting new technologies, especially communications technologies, get destroyed, by soul sucking corporations who invade personal interrelationships to cash in on those relationships. And I mean "cash in", as in "sell". Just like email.... check all the spam, not just the African scams or Viagra offers, but all the junk mail that arrives from any product source a buyer may have investigated in the last 10 years. All the crap that invades the inbox as a result of bots that follow web surfers' every click. The complete rape of privacy.

So now Facebook and Twitter are absorbed by the same forces of desparate commercial evil that have completely co-opted the web for their own economic gain.

Junk. It's all junk.