The Social Networks Phenomena

Ever since the Internet made its way to the vast masses, it has managed to wow us with its ever evolving technology. Many have been able to turn their ideas into reality (some more successfully than others) making available for the masses an universe of online tools on every imaginable category.

The most recent wave has come in the shape of what has been smartly coined as "Social Networks". Websites that provide a space for people to communicate and interact in new ways via their computers. You all know the names of YouTube, MySpace, Facebook. Sites that offer their members the ability to create and share contents with others, interact via posts and chat tools, publish pictures, videos, even music. It's the social heaven for the newer generations.

YouTube will be the end of conventional Television... NOT!

Okay, I am not saying YouTube.com doesn't offer a great product that has come to stay. I find it amusing like almost everyone else and see its value as a new form of entertainment for some, and a form of expression for others. What I find hard to believe is that this library of non-sense videos will ever be a threat to conventional television. And I extend this belief to all forms of online video as they exist today.

Thinking that quality produced entertainment can be threatened by low-end, one man, non-scripted shows is our typical sensationalist reaction. But in reality, how much more can you watch of a crazy cat staring at a ball?