Social Networking: From the Cradle to the Grave: micro social networking sites on the rise.

Until fairly recently, social networks have largely catered to a specific demographic. When Facebook opened its doors to the world outside of college, however, it helped demonstrate that perhaps the appeal of such sites extended beyond high school halls and dorm quads.Yet again, the amount of social networks is on the rice.

Dan Costa argues in the lastest PC Magazine that socalled micro social networks are on the rise. I fully agree on this and this is why I started http://www.isvcommunity.com/ for independent software vendors (ISV) to collaborate across the world about topics around software business. The more generic social networking sites such as LinkedIn.com for professional networking and Facebook.com for more personal networking do not address any specific niche and it will be interesting to see if they will survive in the long run. Steve Rubel in his blog Micro Persuasion has an interesting entry about threat and opportunities in social networking and the change of behavior in new generation of people.

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