The Business of Friends and the Internet
The personality is quite the individual these days. The Internet has empowered the self confident generation of writers, producers, and the everyday individual. The degrees of separation between people is now based on a almost cattle call like click of a mouse. With modern technology at peoples finger tips they can self publish themselves any where they want with some effort and obtain an audience only dreamed of by those young idealistic writers on their way through college.
Its not just as simple as the click of a new friend on Myspace nor does it only require you to buy a catchy domain address that could surely be memorable to the Internet browsing public. It does take work to cultivate and surround yourself with people who either agree or enjoy a good disagreement with your daily musings.
What does seem to happen these days is assumption that a screen of LCD is merely a brick wall between you and a real personal interaction. Yes a single click of the mouse does not prove a real friendship but it opens the door for that emotionally sensitive drive. That outreach that happens between people that choose to interact with each other on some real or digital existence.
The business of human social behavior and the results is the prominent topic when referring to the current state of the Internet. The mass amounts of personal data that are contained in social networks like Facebook are there for the advertisers to make something of. The question is do these popular services produce the results for their users that will eventually make the business of social networks one of profitability.
I have a Myspace, a Facebook, and Virb page but my regular behavior with them has to be transparent or they will not provide the intended results which are social interaction between real people in real life. I have personally found that transparent interaction with my twitter.com/williamedia account and a recent meet-up with people of similar usage patterns has brought me new dedication to that particular social network. This is the organic food that will drive profitability into a eventual business plan for a dot com business like twitter.com.
Other social networks have these kinds of users too I’m just not one of them and their strong push to solve that eternal human social hunger to fill your life with friends is something that provides quite an interesting look of what the business of the Internet is today. With these social bridges provided I have met people I would have never met otherwise over long distances and short. Putting the business of it all aside when you blame the Internet for a lack of real life social behavior between real people your not giving the human condition enough credit for its imperfections.
