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Convergence of the Major Social Networking Platforms

Brad Wellman
Spyder Trap Online Marketing

In this blog post, I want to address how the boundaries of Facebook, MySpace, and other forms of social media and networking sites are becoming more permeable to one another.

With the changing social media landscape, lines tend to become blurred. Such is the case with the social media giants Facebook and MySpace. Although competitors in their own right, there are ways in which users of Facebook link to MySpace, MySpace to Facebook, and both to other platforms of social media.

There are applications on Facebook that enable users to share their MySpace profiles with Facebook users, and vice versa. Similarly, there are applications on Facebook and MySpace that connect with a user’s Twitter profile updates and Plurk updates. There is also an application on Facebook which link information from a user’s LinkedIn profile.

Unlike people defining themselves as a “PC” or a “Mac” user, as “Facebookers” or “MySpacers,” people are now using the various forms of social media simultaneously. The various social media platforms interact, and in some ways, feed off of each other. In effect, the networks are networking.

It will really be interesting to see what the future holds for the social media industry if the major forms of social networking continue to be intertwined more and more seamlessly.

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