What is there going to be after Facebook
? Well as technology moves relentlessly ahead there is already software out that will have you discover the friends of your friends. It sounds like joining a larger club. Perhaps that trend will continue with the market coming out with an ever-sophisticated means of connecting people. As with face book, you get out what you put into it. Today I can virtually send a drink to someone and I can also do a personality test based on choosing images and post that for the world to see.
Where was I before the Facebook thing? I was using my space but only for a short time and that website already had people uploading their little videos.
I don't know if Facebook already had the technology to do the same but I get the feeling that the company is going as I speak and that there are nooks and crannies that are being added all the time. I was happy with doing the blog thing two years back and now just being on a blog site is unpopular; there is this ongoing tendency for convergent technology to occur even before I have a chance to fully appreciate the blog for what is worth. For people wanting more than just posting their opinions, where they can exchange that with their friends and also show their friends what activities they are doing, Facebook is still quite good.
As far as putting all my information out on the web, I have my reservations and when I see what is out there I feel better knowing that I have kept some things for myself. I refuse to divulge everything that I do and live the cyber space thing to the hilt. It is a convenient means of keeping in touch with someone but as far as the old phone is concerned; cyberspace fails when you can get in touch with the person and hear what he has to say.
There is a lot of information one can learn from a person's tone of voice than with the choice of words he has decided to type. That is the main issue for me and think the same issue is felt for other people looking for something that is less superficial. One cannot be guaranteed that phone messages will not be superficial and there are many good con artists out there, but at least you have an extra means of understanding what the person wants to say.
My other reservation over this extended use of cyberspace is that all this information could be misused by big brother organizations that invade your privacy to find out information you would otherwise want to keep to yourself.
Cyberspace is still going to be a successful means of meeting people for some people though. People do find their matches on-line and will continue to do so but maybe it is not a means for everybody.
