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Why Social Media Will Never Go Away

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

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Why Social Media Will Never Go Away

It’s nearly impossible to intimately understand any technological trend unless you view it in the context of human psychology. Most people don’t get what all the fuss is with social media. It seems superficial and arbitrary. It appears that way to most of us because we tend to focus on the technologies rather than the [...]

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How MySpace Became Socially Useless

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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How MySpace Became Socially Useless

MySpace is dying because at some point, it became socially useless. The site is still an important hub for many bands, but it’s lost the respect of a large portion of the grassroots music community because it really is socially useless. Economist Umair Haque has an interesting article about how social uselessness led to the [...]

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