I hesitated before I read the article. My first thought is that looking back, the Internet has become so huge it's overwhelming. In the process it has lost its freewheeling spirit of the early days. Which brings to question how are we going to thrive in this environment that we 'the young and gifted' pioneered to ride away from the real world dominated by the big corporation. I have low awareness of social media, but each time I hear someone mention Myspace or Facebook, it's from the perspective of growing your business. So while we were sleeping, social media has pretty much become commercial media, hence the appropriateness of this article.
commercialization of the web
I hesitated before I read the article. My first thought is that looking back, the Internet has become so huge it's overwhelming. In the process it has lost its freewheeling spirit of the early days. Which brings to question how are we going to thrive in this environment that we 'the young and gifted' pioneered to ride away from the real world dominated by the big corporation. I have low awareness of social media, but each time I hear someone mention Myspace or Facebook, it's from the perspective of growing your business. So while we were sleeping, social media has pretty much become commercial media, hence the appropriateness of this article.