Call it a phase, despite enhanced privacy features now we hate sharing personal stuffs on Facebook but not on a platform enabling a direct one to one interaction to the closed ones. Most of us even hate leaving a direct message on someone’s FB wall or even a direct tweet unless a moment of psychological pat/aid (e.g. birthday, a surgery etc.) is in place.
With the changed meaning of being friends on social networking platforms, on one hand there is a steep rise of scrutinized and intact use of these platforms like never before and on the other there’s a rise of OTT (over the top) services that bypasses the traditional social media and the mobile messaging services. And we can call it a phase of social networking at the micro controlled level; i.e. a micro social networking.
So, what exactly is a micro-social network?
Think of Linkedin… What is it about? Totally dedicated to network you professionally, yes that’s what it does, targeted to something very specific. And that’s the first character of any micro-social network. They are very specific about something and smaller by the number of connections/friends allowed.
Linkedin though can be named as a kind of micro-social networking platform; it has made it real big to the mainstream social networking. Without Linkedin, probably we can’t even think of professional social networking anymore.
Unlike the regular social networking platforms, the networking opportunity on these micro platforms are limited; sometime limited to match its uniqueness or even to the specific niche it is meant for. E.g – Readmill (networking for booklovers), Skillpages (networking based on skills one possesses), FamilyLeaf (for family members/relatives) etc.
When did micro-social networking start?
Read the full article at: HERE http://bit.ly/MicroNetworking
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With the changed meaning of being friends on social networking platforms, on one hand there is a steep rise of scrutinized and intact use of these platforms like never before and on the other there’s a rise of OTT (over the top) services that bypasses the traditional social media and the mobile messaging services. And we can call it a phase of social networking at the micro controlled level; i.e. a micro social networking.
So, what exactly is a micro-social network?
Think of Linkedin… What is it about? Totally dedicated to network you professionally, yes that’s what it does, targeted to something very specific. And that’s the first character of any micro-social network. They are very specific about something and smaller by the number of connections/friends allowed.
Linkedin though can be named as a kind of micro-social networking platform; it has made it real big to the mainstream social networking. Without Linkedin, probably we can’t even think of professional social networking anymore.
Unlike the regular social networking platforms, the networking opportunity on these micro platforms are limited; sometime limited to match its uniqueness or even to the specific niche it is meant for. E.g – Readmill (networking for booklovers), Skillpages (networking based on skills one possesses), FamilyLeaf (for family members/relatives) etc.
When did micro-social networking start?
Read the full article at: HERE http://bit.ly/MicroNetworking
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