Comments on: Social media is the new email http://socialmediagroup.com/2006/12/27/social-media-is-the-new-email-2/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Helping Business Navigate the Social Web. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:46:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Internet Detective 105 - Paid Monitoring Services | The Confidential Resource http://socialmediagroup.com/2006/12/27/social-media-is-the-new-email-2/comment-page-1/#comment-5864 Internet Detective 105 - Paid Monitoring Services | The Confidential Resource Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:02:50 +0000 http://socialmediagroup.ca/2006/12/27/social-media-is-the-new-email-2/#comment-5864 [...] an Investigator, you must realise that even the Vatican uses social media. Some forms of social media are taking on some of the characteristics of email. This information rich environment is something that Investigators and Researchers must understand. [...] [...] an Investigator, you must realise that even the Vatican uses social media. Some forms of social media are taking on some of the characteristics of email. This information rich environment is something that Investigators and Researchers must understand. [...]

]]> By: Norman Young http://socialmediagroup.com/2006/12/27/social-media-is-the-new-email-2/comment-page-1/#comment-958 Norman Young Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:18:48 +0000 http://socialmediagroup.ca/2006/12/27/social-media-is-the-new-email-2/#comment-958 Email is more like the telephone than current forms of social media are like email. Email's and the telephone's rules of engagement are symmetric. If I know your telephone number or your email address, I can call you or email you, and vice versa. Calling or emailing also typically discloses the originating address, so any excess power I enjoy as originator dissolves pretty quickly at the first exchange. Not so with blogs. The blogger retains absolute power over commenters. Granted, anyone is free to create a blog of their own, but doing so does not really reinforce existing conversations. It creates a another forum competing for participants' attention in a distinct space. However, social media have an inherent advantage beyond both the telephone and email. (Email inherited the telephone's fatal flaw by equating physical and logical addresses, but that's another story). The Internet's distributed authority accommodates arbitrary rules of engagement. Blogs demonstrate the potential by inverting the periodical publishing hierarchy. The platform you allude to above will disperse control even further towards the periphery, enabling end users to engage fully and transparently with each other, under their own rules of engagement. The user-disclosed "Mom and David Show" proves the currency. Email is more like the telephone than current forms of social media are like email. Email’s and the telephone’s rules of engagement are symmetric. If I know your telephone number or your email address, I can call you or email you, and vice versa. Calling or emailing also typically discloses the originating address, so any excess power I enjoy as originator dissolves pretty quickly at the first exchange.

Not so with blogs. The blogger retains absolute power over commenters. Granted, anyone is free to create a blog of their own, but doing so does not really reinforce existing conversations. It creates a another forum competing for participants’ attention in a distinct space.

However, social media have an inherent advantage beyond both the telephone and email. (Email inherited the telephone’s fatal flaw by equating physical and logical addresses, but that’s another story). The Internet’s distributed authority accommodates arbitrary rules of engagement. Blogs demonstrate the potential by inverting the periodical publishing hierarchy. The platform you allude to above will disperse control even further towards the periphery, enabling end users to engage fully and transparently with each other, under their own rules of engagement.

The user-disclosed “Mom and David Show” proves the currency.

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