Do social networks start to grow up ?!

On the eve of the New Year, there was a string of forecasts. Everyone who is not lazy makes them. And the “writer” of such predictions, and their reader sees what he wants to see. I am also no exception. However, you see, it’s still very nice :) when there are supporters of your predictions, on both sides of the ocean.

For example, Gary Hall, the owner of the Pringo website, wrote in his forecast about trends in the development of social resources:

In 2008, virtual communities will grow, although younger ones will continue to act as catalysts for the development of social resources. Moreover, adolescents and young people up to 20 years old will remain the main audience of these resources. However, the further growth of this audience will still happen at the expense of the parents of those who now dominate there, at the expense of the older generation and professionals.

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Pringo - refers to the so-called white-label social platforms. I plan to talk about this direction in one of the following notes of the cycle dedicated to the revolution of social platforms .

In the meantime, I only suggest that readers take a look at the annotation to the collective blog “ Intelligent Social Resources and Enterprise 2.0 ”, and also once again run over my production note “ My Space, which I cannot find on the Internet .” True, the forecasts are the same? Social networks are starting to grow up!