During the 80s and 90s, the only common uses of the word “social” as an adjective in front of a noun was for “social studies” that you took in elementary school, and maybe “social security”. Then in the middle of this decade we started to see it applied to Web 2.0 concepts (e.g. social bookmarking, social networking, social software, social graph) but now it is proliferating out of control – (e.g. social gaming, social commerce, social broadcasting, social media). The only letter in the alphabet that does not generate a Google suggester in the G-Toolbar is the letter X (social X-box is not yet a common term).
Archive for May, 2008
Profile Pic Management
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Since there is practically a site related to every aspect of Social Networking – why isn’t there one for profile pic management (or maybe Flickr should do a feature). I don’t particularly go out of my way to join social media sites, but even so I have more than 10 profile pics that I have had to upload separately. Now, you really expect me to go to each & every site and upload new pics, every time I have a makeover (or trying to play down my crazy Tequilla past?) No – there should be some kid at Stanford who starts a profile pic mgmt site or Flickr should allow me to do this. Maybe I should write Kakul…
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