AgainstSocialNetworkingSoftware

SocialNetworkingSoftware will fail because real social networks are organized around things. Social networking software is only organized around the abstract idea of the social network.

http://www.teledyn.com/mt/archives/001649.html#001649

Doesn't seem entirely plausible, given TribeNet's ability to organize tribes around themes. But may have a point.

The argument in favour of sharp focus seems to miss the possibility of serendipity and the virtue of FractalLoading. And as I argued (somewhere on Tribe), with a general social networking service, you will be connected to different people through different shared interests. On separate themed social networks you'd have fewer connections via these other dimensions.

In a sense, generic social networking software is the negative of the normal, purposful networks we use. It lets us make extra connections around the corners of those networks.

Part of SocialSoftware