[Air-l] social network migration

[danah boyd]

That's what the whole FOAF movement is about.  While i understand the  
motivations for those who are peripheral to the networks and login  
occasionally, by and large, most active users (and especially those  
under 25) transition to a new network when they are ready to move  
on.  They want to take some people with them, but not all.  There's a  
cleansing feel to it.

That doesn't mean that it won't take off.  Think about laptop  
upgrades.  It always felt annoying to transfer everything and if  
you're an Apple person, you probably wanted to kiss the designer who  
allowed you to put the firewire cables together and suck everything  
off the old onto the new. And then you realized that you never got to  
do spring cleaning.  But now it's too much of a pain to clean and  
everything's bogged down and feels slow for no good reason.  You  
still are thankful for the easy transition but there's still  
something lost there...

danah


On Jul 1, 2007, at 5:17 AM, Kate Raynes-Goldie wrote:

> that's starting to happen already with jaiku and 30boxes
>
>
> On 01/07/2007, at 8:11 PM, gazz wrote:
>
>> God yes! I need that!
>>
>> On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 17:47 +0200, Maciej Kos wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I wonder if we would see a sort of a social network aggregator
>>> developed in the near future. A tool to integrate all our networks..
>>>
>>> Today, we can aggregate all the news, blogs, etc. we need using an
>>> RSS
>>> reader. We can also aggregate all the content that we create on
>>> different platforms in one place - using jaiku.com, so that it is
>>> easier for others to follow everything we do online.
>>>
>>> Would that be possible to somehow integrate all our online social
>>> networks? Is there a need for it?
>>>
>>> M.
>>>
>>> On 6/20/07, elw at stderr.org <elw at stderr.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Now for the scholarly types, this community seems to be a bit more
>>>>> fragmented. I know many of these people who have accounts on
>>>>> myspace and
>>>>> even friendster, in addition to Facebook. I personally have an
>>>>> inactive
>>>>> friendster account that never ceases to amaze me when I get
>>>>> notices that
>>>>> someone actually was there. These are slowly dribbling off.
>>>>
>>>> there are at least a few people from aoir that i've found on:
>>>>
>>>> tribe
>>>> friendster
>>>> facebook
>>>> myspace
>>>> linkedin
>>>> ryze
>>>> orkut
>>>> [a site i've forgotten the name of...]
>>>>
>>>> and probably a significant number of other sites that i don't
>>>> know about.
>>>>
>>>> I have friends from several different demographics on each of them.
>>>>
>>>> When folks try to compress a site into "teens go here" and
>>>> "latinos mostly
>>>> go here", they generally miss out on the fact that these sites
>>>> are HUGE -
>>>> so huge that there is a broad spectrum of behavior present on ALL
>>>> of them.
>>>> Surface-level characterizations are great, yes, but there's a  
>>>> lot of
>>>> nuance in people's behaviors and networking patterns - that is
>>>> easily
>>>> missed.
>>>>
>>>> --elijah
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