Survival of the fattest?
How do you like that statement? It may be true. The emerging reality, it seems, is that these tools are leading us, and we are leading them, and together we’re finding out what this global society is all about.
For a while it seemed that social media sites would continue to proliferate, blooping up everywhere while we drown in confusion. But now it seems the few and the proud are coming out on top, swallowing the competition. What’s social media? Everyone knows: LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. (I speak of the US, only, as I don’t know how it is overseas.)
I still hear from the Plaxos and Naymz, the Linknamis and the Xings now and again, but I ignore the messages. There’s no need for them. How much can one person intake, much less output?
We satisfy the id on Facebook, the ego on Twitter, and the superego on LinkedIn – just as my esteemed colleague maintains in the quote above. It’s a formidable triumvirate, the foundational tripod, the shape that our internet enthusiasm has modeled thus far.
