People don’t use social software?
An interesting post over on the Vitamin blog where Ryan Carson has a post titled: “Why I don’t use social software”.
There are many interesting points and I threw my 2 cents in the comments. The basic gist of it is how can there be so many different options for social networks and web apps when everyone is pressed for time as it is and have a million things to do?
What I think is basically it comes down to what people perceive to be valuable to them and their lifestyle. Yes there may be MySpace and 20 other websites just like it, but the people will choose (atleast those exposed to them) which one suits them best. He made this good point:
“I believe there is a huge market for more web apps that are aimed at users like me. We’ve got specific problems that need to be solved and we’re willing to pay good money for solutions.”
Which I couldn’t agree with more. In fact, this is the whole concept behind SugarStats.com as well. The point is to help solve a specific issue that affects A LOT of people (70 million they say now). Now this may not be social software or for entertainment purposes, but it serves the point that there are problems out their that need attention and that we can use these technologies to help solve them. These are what I like to call “LifeStyle Management” apps but the possibilities span even much farther than that.
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Posted on August 21, 2006
Filed Under Business, Daily Thoughts, Design, General, Marketing, Mobile Tech, Ruby on Rails, Startup, SugarStats, Tech, Web
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