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Title:

How Social Networks Are Killing the Revolution

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Organizer:
Steve Swedler, Gangplank
Description:
Social networking sites today do as much for real world action as paint on the walls does for the structural integrity of your home. Come discuss how we are creating a false majority-view mentality and how to overcome this to achieve large scale change in the world.
Questions
Answered:
  1. While social networks tout the personal network-expanding benefits of their services, are we simply building bigger silos?
  2. Do today's social networks create "action?"
  3. What are we getting out of our participation in these networks?
  4. What is a false majority-view and how does that affect our willingness/motivation to act.
  5. How do social networks cause cyclical thinking and prohibit us from forming actionable plans?
  6. What are some real-world examples of how this is happening?
  7. Where are social networks succeeding?
  8. How can we 'be the change we wish to see?'
  9. What are the sociological factors that are contributing to our behaviors online?
  10. Where is the opportunity for us to fill this gap?
Panelists:
Todd Huffman (sStitch), Shannon Paul (Detroit Red Wings), Steve Swedler, moderator (Gangplank), Jeremy Tanner (jeremytanner.com)
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Community / Social Networks
Type:
Solo
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
joshua strebel
on 8/8/08
Social Media killed the geocities star.
Steve Swedler
on 8/8/08
Judging by the number of entries for panels in this area, obviously Social Networking is hot now. But is our participation helping us? If so, how? Or are we just building self-validating networks that hinder rather than help us grow, succeed, and change the world. Are we causing a signal-to-noise problem?
Chase Granberry
on 8/8/08
or ... enabling stalkers?
Kim Ethridge
on 13/8/08
It's a paradigm that needs to be addressed.
Sean Tierney
on 21/8/08
Steve gave a 5min version of this topic at Ignite Phoenix recently. Hive mind behavior and apathy are both real and negative consequences of giving too much stock to a social network. this would definitely be an interesting discussion.
Chuck Reynolds
on 21/8/08
@strebel dude geocities is dead? what? i better check on my free webspace then ;)
Isaac Weinhausen
on 22/10/08
@chuck @strebel I preferred xoom over geocities. 5mb of online storage vs 3mb, ftw.

Seriously, this is a great topic and needs attention. Thx Steve! cya there.
Ski chalets
on 16/8/09
What is your view about twitter then? http://compareaway.com uses it to spread the message about their holiday rental price comparison site.
Free Games
on 2/11/09
Another brilliant one!
blu ray ripper
on 13/11/09
So looking forward to this..
Anu Warn
on 29/11/09
I don't feel Social Media killed the geocities star. Looking forward to it..
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