Will Personal Websites be the Social Networks of the Future?

[David Baxter PhD]

Will Websites be the Social Networks of the Future?
by Daniel Scocco, Daily Blog Tip
March 30, 2009

Assumption 1: Most people will want/need to have an online presence in the future

Assumption 2: People like to own their stuff
One of the problems with most social sites today is the fact that the users don?t own the sites. They don?t even own the individual contributions that they make.

Assumption 3: Technology will evolve, bringing social features to any website
If people like to own their stuff, how come they subject themselves to the terms of social sites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter? How come they put work into something that they don?t own?

They do that because there are no alternatives. Yet.

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