Reaching Critical Mass
(photo by Brian Solis)
After seeing this image last night, I had to admit to myself how overwhelmed I feel at times when it comes to social media. There are so many options available, it’s enough to make your head spin.
Does this resemble the dot.com bubble in any way? Are there enough people using services such as Swurl to keep these companies viable? It’s telling when the race is on, not to create the next great service, but to create the best aggregator, the tool that connects all your web 2.0 services into one ‘lifestream’.
And whether or not these are financially viable, I wonder more how these affect our lives. I’ve signed up for a lot of accounts over the past couple of years to take a look at some of these tools. A couple, like Twitter, have stuck and see regular usage. Most are forgotten.
Maybe I’m just old fashioned, but my worry is that I’ll be so busy configuring my lifestream, I’ll neglect my actual life.
Am I the only one?
