276 Podcast Answer Man – When Taking Things To The Next Level Is Beyond Your Comfort Zone – Radical Twitter Decision – And So Much More!

And that doesn't mean there absolutely has to be a successor to any of these channels. Often times through a series of transitions, then the right balance is struck. We saw the mass exodus from MySpace to Facebook. Some my say it was the difference between cluttered and often unusable spaces, but I see it as more of a transition between segregated personal web sites to integrated sharing sites. My concerns are in the areas where is evolution occurs, we're basically left with two viable options. Two political parties, Coke or Peps, Apple oro Android, i and so on. I think this is driven both by the powers that be as well as the choices made by the populace. 

And the any alternates which may exist is reality or just on the drawing board do face the almost insurmountable user ship. Not only would it have to actually be done better, but there would have to be such a marketing effort to entice users away from what they're comfortable with, that this new place is not where it's happening, what's cook. 

My other concern is where there is this monopoly-like situation, the powers that be either rest on their laurels or make changes just for the sake of change, not whether it's bringing new value. We've seen similar things with the ISPs a few years back. First there was a certain level of integration, then buy-outs and takeovers. So in one respect, I'm sorta glad that Twitter is perhaps drawing a line in the sand, but it is unfortunate that certain features than may find useful are now disabled. 

Yes. I do tend to drift towards the negative side of things, but that's one reason I keep coming back here - it reminds me where the balance is, that there services that exist do add value to out lives should be choose to use them and are willing to navigate the obstacles as they come up. Before I keft my job, one conversation I had with my boss - an old school guy - was about why I though we should add FB and Twitter feeds to the sites we built. THey were common enough to not alienate anyone, and my answer was "Why Not"? They're free and don't require a lot of maintenance. Just the icons themselves showed that we weren't behind the times, and anything neyond that we free exposure which would translate into just about anything

Interesting episode even to me, one being not a podcaster or even a tweeter. I also listened to the previous episodes to get the background. My inclination is to go back a few steps to examine what social networking is all about and the various ways it is being used. Typical social networking is mainly peer-to-peer with friends sharing updates, photos and videos with other friends. But there' a fine line between sharing and promoting, and I have no problem with that. It's also natural that those who have more of a celebrity in any online community will naturally have more friends and followers and that many of these connections or relationships won't be equal, nor should they be. 

And no one should be faulted for whatever choices they make in how they maintain their online social connections. I think this applies whether one uses social media to a great degree, or just checks into facebook every once in a while to see how their friends are. I maintain a large list of friends there, but only because it provides a way to me to contact them if I need to and vice versa - it's not the each of us are all that interested in our day to day activities. But there are a few that are. and to gain the value from that requires a certain amount of maintenance - configuring settings as to who shows up in the feed and what not. 

And I have an even bigger question - have we reached some sort or plateau here with social media? The Big Three FB, Twitter, and Linkedin all occupy their own niche but with overlap. Are the developers and creators going to continue to "refine" these things - sometimes just to make things worse - or are there any up an coming services that will take social media in a radically new direction and yet being additional value to the industry?