When each new service comes online it doesn’t seem to take too long for last month’s “latest big thing” to look jaded and less exciting to those who eagerly signed up for yet another free social network subscription.
I’ll bet that many people now have a fistful of such networks in their personal portfolios. I’ll also bet that a fair number of people have created data “bridges” between their various subscriptions; indeed such data migration functions appear to be de rigeur for any new social network.
Contact/ data migration links are extremely useful to the subscriber and very valuable to the receiving (i.e. new) networks, whom I suspect will “mine” any data gathered for their own potential network growth opportunities, i.e. new punters.
Of course my suspicion is just that – only a suspicion, I have no evidence either way. Apart from a fairly strong insight into human nature and organisational behaviour.
Which leads me to wonder if my scepticism/ cynicism [about the sanctity of data migration between social networks] is simply my own prejudice? Or is it representative of those generations who have been indoctrinated against freely sharing information by regular incantations of principles such as “only on a need to know basis” and “knowledge is power?”
