People get online, but they don’t know what to do. So they go somewhere like Digg, flickr, Youtube, or wherever to see what everyone else is doing. They:
A) want to do SOMETHING online; ANYTHING. Entertain me!
B) don’t want to be left out of THE conversation (s). They want to be in the KNOW.
There are many start-ups that want to help with this by recommending music, web sites, videos, movies, books, photos, news articles, blog postings, hobbies. They want to connect us to others with similar interests and tastes so we can in turn find new stuff we’d like. Show us MORE, MORE.
But do I really need all this? I don’t want to spend more time entering my tastes for books I like, then it takes to enjoy browsing a library or book shelf. There is already so much stuff I know about, stop trying to show me more.
I’ll be glad when this new wave of recommendation and social sites filter away to a few of the best ones, so that new genres of start-ups will arise.
