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Social Media Bubble? Relationship Inflation?

Posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by No comments yet

Oh boy.  Umair Haque is gonna get it.  The boisterous boosters of the blah-blah-blah-o-sphere won’t let his Harvard Business Review piece pass without comment (and lots of them).  Here’s a snippet…

Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn’t connecting us as much as we think it is. It’s largely home to weak, artificial connections, what I call thin relationships.

During the subprime bubble, banks and brokers sold one another bad debt — debt that couldn’t be made good on. Today, “social” media is trading in low-quality connections — linkages that are unlikely to yield meaningful, lasting relationships.

Call it relationship inflation.

Heresy!

Posted in: Facebook, Front Porch Forum, social capital, Social Media, Social Networking


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