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Title:

How Social Networks Are Killing the Revolution

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Level:
Intermediate
Type:
Solo
Category:
Community / Social Networks
Presenter:
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.
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.
Do it today!
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