Comment Re:Laughable (Score 1) 260
but we have used something like it before... We communicated with BBS, certain ones became "hubs". When we had AOL, certain groups became hubs.. which was really easy for suits to own. Yahoo came along with their open version of groups and mopped up. Then MySpace started allowing everybody to have one and that quickly turned into a personal/group sharing site. Now we're up to Facebook.. The names change but the "flocking and migration" effect stays the same.
it's nice to think that "the internet" can function as a group of affiliated sites, but reality from the very beginning is that the "connections" part of "the web" never really panned out right from the very first HTTP links that were supposed to be two-way to represent a "web". People WANT to flock like birds. The majority of the groups WANTS to all do the same thing, because it's what we do as social critters. Right now we're flocking with Facebook. At some point we'll all migrate somewhere else. Microsoft and Google with more money than god have failed to break this part of human experience. I see it continuing to repeat every 5-7 years or so.