In the grand scheme of things, the ways being online and interconnected are impacting our lives are just beginning to become visible.
Or so says this article in Salon.com on social networking:
The venture capitalists and start-up CEOs call this “the return of the consumer Internet,” but the truth is that nothing ever went away.
Our attention may have lapsed — I know mine did. After the dot-com crash, 9/11, corporate scandal and war, what people are doing online just doesn’t seem as world-changingly important as it once did, last century.
But that doesn’t mean that we stopped doing things online — on the contrary, more people are doing more things online than ever before, and social networking is an essential part of it. Like e-mail, like using a search engine, social networking is a part of the Internet way of life.
And it’s barely getting started.
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