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| quote: | Originally posted by Kismet7
Interesting concept, but not sure if this will work on a mass scale like email, facebook, myspace, basic chatrooms, twitter, youtube have been able to catch on. Outside of maybe business applications or more serious purposeful networking, the chances are slim for Google Wave. I doubt it will take off as a social networking phenomenon because it asks people to actually pay attention to what is going on within the Wave to be the best contributors to the Wave. If we look at research data, society has a dwindling attention span, and with the amount of distractions rising, attention spans are overtapped. Social networking works because the dynamics ask people to be both active and they can be passive (works out for the masses), you contribute and socialise on your own time and avoid it when you want. Just like how this forum works. For this to work properly, it might ask people to be more active or at least watching what is going on within the wave to get the most out of it. And if they're not getting the most out of it by being active, then they're not earning the rewards (incentive) that will keep them using it.
Its kinda like building a sand castle with a few people, after a while you get tired of building sand castles, especially after a few have failed. For businesses, I thnk it can be used as an info and keyword mining tool, for Google to sell to companies looking for info about what the general public are talking about. Also as a viral marketing tool to create hiveminded opinions about things, using individuals as the catalyst to drive interest and consensus. Like "lets all go see Twilight : New Moon" and 3 people say "yes lets go" which triggers person 5-10 to also join in, something Facebook and Twitter already accomplish decent enough.
Besides the points already mentioned, people really have to be bored, and highly tolerant of eachother for them to keep coming back to this type of online social environment. Its seems like its like a chatroom in dynamic email format. Whens the last time you wanted to regularly be part of a chatroom, or would you want to going forward? With zee business/market analyst hat on, I dont see this taking off anywhere near the level of other social networking applications. |
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Last edited by Kismet7 on Jan-12-2010 at 19:14
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