The psychosis for social content on the internet is gaining its acceleration. Blogs, social networks, portals and other means for building virtual relationships. Are there so many lonely people sitting in front of computers? Or are there other reasons that drive people to build as many virtual links as possible? Of course, distance looses its meaning in internet. Even the perception of time changes - you can travel back in history (as back as internet allows).
What I'm more interested in is what are the possibilities of social content: what forms it can gain and what benefits it can bring to user? Now it seems that everything is tried out: blogging, linking, digging, tagging, feeding and it's impossible to invent something new, except the synthesis of all these techniques. I also wonder, are these things being created because of demand and need for such services or for profit. Ok, one may say, that everything is for profit nowadays, but probably I'm one those few people who think, that things can be done for the sake of idea. Sure, it doesn't pay bills, but it gives satisfaction, with which you can go and do not so pleasant job to stay alive (that idea a bit contradicts my personal beliefs, but it is acceptable in case it's impossible to combine ideas(and satisfaction) with job).
And for the final idea, what is the price of being a part of social-virtual network? Easy guess - privacy and anonymousness, but isn't it a bit too pricey? Probably, everyone has a personal scale for paying what he gets there.
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