Yahoo!'s Mash - yet more 'social' networking??

Launched this week, Yahoo!'s Mash invite only beta - currently hundreds of messages to chief developer's blog asking to be invited - but will it be worth it when we do finally gain access? Do we need yet another social networking platform in our lives? Just how 'social' is the virtual world? Are we all becoming socially inept in the real world? Just how much time and desire is there for this type of site? Or is it just a 'me too' product, like AOL's lame 'AIMPages' offering?

Sorry, starting to rant, must go outside briefly to see if it's sunny this week.......

Interesting to see how many of these SN sites thrive and how many wither in coming months/years. GroverPI may try them all but how many will still be in use once he grows up and stops chewing sticks?

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1. At 20 Sep 2007 13:41, Mark Adams wrote:

I'm a Trustee of a charity, Citizens Online, aiming to help, among other things, bridge the "Digital Divide" with some 22 projects around the UK. We realised last year that the "next big thing" for us would be about the offline element. Even coined the phrase "Citizens Offline" as a focus. Heaven is truly when you have offline and online helping each other. Then it's 'accelerated social'.

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