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Social Media: Integration is next

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So Facebook gets Friendfeed.  A big social media sites get what is essentially a social media aggregator, ensuring of course they have more social media aggregation.

At this rate there are an insane amount of social media sites out there (just take alook at a few of them at http://knowem.com/).  There are many more sites that aggregate some of their information in feeds, gizmos, etc.

To lay it out blatantly, social media aggregation and integration is going to be the new norm.  Social media became a norm, and it also became so incredibly widespread it's hard to track which service you're using.

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Generations and Social Media

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Dan Schwabel's "Me 2.0" book had me thinking on Gen X versus Gen Y use of Social Media.  Being a person that moves among different age groups pretty easy, I've been thinking over how people use social media differently.  Though I think there's a Gen X-versus-Gen Y difference (that is more a continuum), I've begun speculating that social media is useful in careers and life – but often misused.

Blatant biased opinion and analysis follows.

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