Doing business on collective Networking Sites is a prescribe For Failure
Doing business on collective Networking Sites is a prescribe For Failure
I recently read an report in my local Sunday company section about the success of a young lady named Allison, who is making connections and selling real estate over Facebook.
I know Allison and I wish her well. I hope she makes a killing in the local real estate market. But she great make her money quickly before the fad wears off.
Facebook is only one of many Web 2.0 collective networking sites ready over the Internet. There are many, many more, such as:
Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace, Sms.ac, Photovations, Kaboodle, Orkut, StumbleUpon, Behance, Aol Buddies, Spaces.live, Xanga, Tagged, Reunion, Classmates, perceive Project, MeetUp, Squidoo, Hubpages, How to do things, Friendfeed, Merchantcircle, Yelp, Google Knol, Aboutus.org, Koynce and Google Profiles.
But did collective networking ever exist before all these websites? Well, kind of.
Remember back to the heady days of Geo Cities and Angle Fire where population would flock in mass to build there first website to share, recapitulate or show-off their nerdy prowess.
Then for the truly nerdy, there was Irc Chat and Usenet Groups.
Given the newest increase trend in these fad websites and applications, there is one constant you can depend on. Eventually, the owners, companies or corporations will do what is in their best interest or the interest of their shareholders.
What does that mean to you?
If you spend hundreds or even thousands of hours building your collective networking pages with links, text, photos, documents, video and files, there is no warrant that all your hard work will be here next week or next year.
Is that as a matter of fact possible?
Sure.
Geocites was a stupendous place that contained hundreds and thousands of websites.
If you go to geocities.com you will find that have gone the way of the buggy whip.
While we have a ways to go before we see the demise of major brand-name collective networking websites, you need to understand that you are only a Web tenant on these networks.
At the end of the day, you want to own your site and domain name, control your fate, and call the shots.
Don’t be a Web tenant.
Doing business on collective Networking Sites is a prescribe For Failure
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