Quality over quantity on social networks
Social networking sites have been growing and dying for quite a few years. I don’t think they are going away, even if some of the well known, or over hyped options currently in operation are no longer in existence in a few years. Why? Because people have an innate need to communicate, share and keep in touch with other people.
But, I do think that many social networking users’ focus will change from obtaining lots of followers to refining their list of followers to just the friends and family for which they want to keep in touch.
It will soon be all about the quality of the connection, rather than the quantity of connections. In fact, I think social networking sites should not only suggest new people for me to follow, but also people I should likely stop following since we aren’t close enough for it to matter. That would be helpful.
I’m not sure if people are ready for this yet, though. It has yet to become burdensome (like email) to monitor the social networking sites for enough people. But it will. Until then, I’m going to prune my list of followers and see what happens.
