However, after witnessing how a 90-character update can unleash such a torrent of concern, support and love — I now know we have nothing to fear from the atomization of conversation. Rather, it’s just the opposite. As tools get created to atomize our interactions, they provide a much easier, much faster way for us to react to the events in others’ lives.
Redeye VC on Conversation
26 May 2008
15 May 2008
Instead, I believe that in the future, social networks will be like air. They will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them to be. And also, without that social context in our connected lives, we won’t really feel like we are truly living and alive, just as without sufficient air, we won’t really be able to breathe deeply.
Charlene Li on Social Networks
10 February 2008
Extrapolation of what’s happening “now” is one of the most dangerous things in trying to predict the future. If something is growing quickly today, it doesn’t mean that will last.
Techdirt on Social Networks