Everyone knows about the huge social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook. But it seems like every website is adding some sort of internal social networking aspect to it. Some sites such as Vimeo and Youtube need this to survive but it seems unneccesary to add these applications to sites like etsy, an ebayesque site where users can host their handmade wares. So what happens when you belong to all of these different sites, you have to create a profile for each one, upload photos, and if you want to keep in touch with everyone on all of these different networks you have to visit them weekly. My dream: a universal networking site, that is connected to virtually every other networking site. That is what ultimately must happen and probably will. But who will own the monopoly? It’s getting increasingly difficult to remember all of the SoNets that one belongs to. SoNets: that’s the word of the day and it’s mine unless someone has already claimed rights to it. So this is the question, how will we as an internet community decide who wins this SoNet war?
