http://thepracticeofyourlife.com/2009/06/29/move-over-email-and-twitter-google-wave-is-coming/ Get More Out Of Business, Career And Your Personal Life Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thepracticeofyourlife.com/2009/06/29/move-over-email-and-twitter-google-wave-is-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Mario Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:53:14 +0000 http://thepracticeofyourlife.com/?p=584#comment-221 Peter, I look at (over)proliferation of social networking sites--Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, et al.--the same way that I recall the Citizens' Band (or CB) radio craze of the 1970's (remember those days?). There was a time when analog, two-way radio communication was the domain of truckers/tradesmen, and military/state/federal emergency services. Then CB-radio exploded on the scene in the mid-70's, and it seemed that everyone and their mother had a portable CB and a call "handle." Eventually, the number CB channels increased, and were designated for different types of citizens' communications (not unlike the development of internet chat rooms, two decades later). Eventually, CB became a victim of its own poularity, due to high volume overuse, which led to frequency jamming and signal interference over long distances. Technological developments (UHF, mobile phones and the internet), as well as natural phenonomena (11-year sunspot cycles), led to CB eventual demise by the mid-1980's. I see social networking sites as another extension of this phenomenon, to be eclipsed by yet another communications revolution. With the advent of Web 2.0+, the next social networking rage will be communicating via HD avatar constructs, while fully immersed in realtime VR world (think 'Second Life' meets 'The Matrix' on steroids). Then folks will be reminiscing: "Hey, remember Twitter..?" Peter,
I look at (over)proliferation of social networking sites–Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, et al.–the same way that I recall the Citizens’ Band (or CB) radio craze of the 1970′s (remember those days?).
There was a time when analog, two-way radio communication was the domain of truckers/tradesmen, and military/state/federal emergency services. Then CB-radio exploded on the scene in the mid-70′s, and it seemed that everyone and their mother had a portable CB and a call “handle.” Eventually, the number CB channels increased, and were designated for different types of citizens’ communications (not unlike the development of internet chat rooms, two decades later).
Eventually, CB became a victim of its own poularity, due to high volume overuse, which led to frequency jamming and signal interference over long distances. Technological developments (UHF, mobile phones and the internet), as well as natural phenonomena (11-year sunspot cycles), led to CB eventual demise by the mid-1980′s.
I see social networking sites as another extension of this phenomenon, to be eclipsed by yet another communications revolution. With the advent of Web 2.0+, the next social networking rage will be communicating via HD avatar constructs, while fully immersed in realtime VR world (think ‘Second Life’ meets ‘The Matrix’ on steroids).
Then folks will be reminiscing: “Hey, remember Twitter..?”

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