Just a quick post today, basically to discuss something I have been meaning to talk about for quite a while now. Why is it that, in this social era of the internet, we feel so compelled to be a part of every social service available… Even though they are essentially the same thing?

For example… When MySpace was first launched, I remember I was reluctant to join. But when I DID eventually join it, another was launched… Bebo. Now, the interesting thing here was that all of my friends who were using MySpace, suddenly switched to using Bebo instead, leaving their old MySpace accounts abandoned.

Then along came Facebook, and guess what? Yup… It happened again. (Please don’t quote me on the launch order of MySpace, Bebo and Facebook. That’s just the order I went in haha!)

Stranger still, is that now some time has passed since these three social giants opened their doors, I find that most people I know, have accounts with AT LEAST two of the aforementioned sites, if not all of them! What’s more, is that some of them also post their new pictures, statuses and comments to all of the sites. Essentially replicating their accounts across the social sites.

The same goes for mini-social sites, such as Twitter, Pownce and FriendFeed. I know quite a few people who have accounts to all three, and post their mini “What are you doing now?” messages to all three simultaneously using software that relays your messages to all services instantly (One example is Thwirl).

If your reading this, it would be nice to hear your thoughts on this… Why do people hop from social site to social site and bother to keep multiple profiles up to date? Why can’t we settle on one and stick with it? Why is it that software practically encourages us to relay a single piece of information to multiple destinations?

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