Expert Catrina Fake feels social networking has yet to evolve

If experts such as Catrina Fake are to be believed, social networking is still in its early stages and it will prove to be much more exciting in years to come. Fake is the co-founder of the pioneering photograph sharing website Flickr and has been into online communities and blogging since the 1990s. She sold Flickr to Yahoo in 2005 in a multi million dollar deal.

She told CNN that it is not some passing fashion but is going to stay. She said:

“Online sociality is really the nature of the Internet. The first thing that made people love the Internet was instant messaging, email and all the communication tools.  I have read that 25% of all Internet traffic is social networking, and the reason is that people have an incredibly powerful desire to communicate with each other, and that will never go away.”

Her belief stems comes from her observations and experience. She explains:

“I think there is a kind of over-connecting happening. People are starting to realise that having so many contacts and keeping on top of so many people’s lives is actually quite a lot of work. I think there is a trend.”

According to her, the rigid networks of friends are not the future of social networking but subtle social collaborations are.

“I think that in many ways the ‘explicit’ social networks are less powerful than the less-social networks.”

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