With social network sites like Facebook and Twitter around, people are expressing every moment of themselves via these communication mediums. Call it micro-blogging if you will, I've even heard it called the new "chat room", social networking has become a big part of the internet culture. But what haven't we seen yet? As with past trends, MP3 file sharing, high-speed Internet, web browsers the was "the one" that started it all and then more stemmed from there. Where's the one stop shopping for social networking? Of course I'll stand corrected with users replying with their API program of choice (i.e. TweetDeck, Tweetie, etc.) but there isn't a piece of hardware out there yet that encompasses that. I'm looking at Apple, they did it with the iPod, they did it with iTunes, they did it with MacBook / Powerbook / iMac...

Of course the rumor mill has been churning, but I think the Social Networking culture will really take off once we start seeing big companies integrate status updates into their products. Of course these push notifications are going to get annoying to our friends but I think as we get more and more accustomed to being updated as to what others are doing a redefining of a "tweet" or "status update" will emerge.

To side track though - I really want to know when exactly did Twitter become so popular. Was it the Ashton Kutcher challenge vs. CNN..? I mean really - Twitter was established almost 4 years ago and was really to help users who don't have data cell phones, update others about what's up. Ever text message like 13 people...? Annoying right? Well why not have them subscribe to you via a service that will update them when you post a message. Of course that's changed and now Twitter is the "quick news trend" and "does somebody else think the same thing as me"? Even the idea itself dates back to 2000...

Whether it's Facebook or Twitter, I think social networking... 2.0 will be interesting, especially to see what people are willing to share.

-MQ

(Follow me @MooseQuest)

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