The Social Media Bubble?
I fall somewhere between what Umair Haque says and what Bud Caddell says. Mostly I don’t care if social media is a bubble; I love thinking, playing and working with the media, technology and information that have sprouted up from it.
I see both sides of the argument. And, my overriding theme through all of this is that it’s great if we can figure out a few things. The largest being how to identify the trusted network of users in our social networking lives.
Craig Newmark has identified and clearly stated what I believe the problem with all this to be (article via Everyday UX),
what he thinks is the next big problem the web has to solve. And what is that? The question of who to trust online, according to Newmark. To solve it, he believes that what the web needs is a “distributed trust network” that allows us to manage our online relationships and reputations.
Tags: internet, relationships, social media