Q: If managers aren’t important anymore towards the formation or control of groups using online tools, what do you consider the main role websites such as Meetup.com, Facebook, or MySpace have provided newly emerging groups?
The story of the lost cell phone proves that social networking sites have become an easy way of reaching out to million of people from your living room to gain support over an issue. Even though a lost cell phone is not normally a huge deal to the NYPD, the amount of people involved in the cause due to Evan's blog created a lot of buzz and pt the NYPD under the spotlight to do something about it. As seen in the story, social networking sites allow individuals to gain followers and momentum because the web creates a way for people to come together over a single cause that they might feel passionately about. In other words, I think the main role websites such as Meetup.com, Facebook, or MySpace have provided to emerging groups is just a common place for everyone to talk about whatever is on their mind.. because chances are there are a lot more people out there that feel the same way you feel about an issue.
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What's the magic seed that gets people interested in something enough to follow it? In our Shirky story, it was the feeling that justice was required. Is there a magic seed?
ReplyDeleteI think the "magic seed" is different for every person. It may be an issue they support or don't support passionately, or it might be something that inspires them like music and song lyrics. It really depends ont he individual, but that is the great thing about blogs and the internet, there is something for everyone to become interested in and if there isn't it can be easily created.
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