Social Networking Trends

As people become less likely to hand out real meaningful information on sites that are data mining, the public trust in the larger sites is waning. Private, or discreet, Social Networking, where many web sites will naturally attach a social networking element to their services, and specialist interest groups will be offered tools to achieve the same networking potential, but without the risk involved in public net access.

Social Networking for Everyone

As schools and work places start to utilise Social Networking tools they require a platform where they can control the content, and as importantly the membership of the sites. Free on the Internet usually means they will data mine your details. With Private Social Networking information given by members can be kept as private as possible.

Ethical Social Networking?

Wow .. now there's a concept. It's a fact that the social networking industry has a poor record of transparent marketing and the opportunity for less than ethical practices is high. Setting up hundreds of fake profiles to start a site, running huge spamming campaigns, extracting the contents of everyone email address books are just a few of the techniques used, and there's worse. They all share an amount of deception and prey on people's lack of technical expertise, and usually revolves around drawing out as much personal information as possible.