What keeps facebook afloat is a huge chunk of investment captial and the as yet not realized hopes of ad placers.
What keeps myspace afloat is the Murdoch media empire.
Having worked in a firm that did myspace and facebook apps, let me tell you that there is not mcuh room to make money. It is a false economy. It is starting ot look like another bubble. Also, the next generation of kids will do something else. Mobile social gaming in a virtual world.
Also, as young people today start families and in general grow up, the landscape will change. The Social Net world seems focused on trivial and childish things.
Socialism never works, and the Democrats are frauds, sooner or latter more people figure that out. Young people are mostly Democrats, and it has been this way since the 1930′s. Then they grow up. The boomer are an exception to that rule. The next generations may not be.
This is not to say that the right should not embrace it, but let us not assume that it is as huge a phenomena as TV.
It time, all apps will be socially enabled and it will be more of just a focused ad model than any radical social/media phenomena.
What we need to endrun the Media and the left are platforms that allow:
1) local organization for political action, opinion sharing and information dissemination. school board elections, mayorial elections, outing far left professors, crooked lefty pols, countering the MSM’s agitprop etc.
2) Lets the local communities in #1 unite at a regional and national level.
3) Serve as a repository of facts to debunk liberal lies, hustles, outrages and attacks.
4) Facilitate political pressure groups that can put pressure on the Left wing establishment.
5) Provide a way to opt out of popular/media/MSM culture
The big social platforms can be infiltrated and new ones built.
But the overriding focus of current social net platforms is scarcely adult at all. Perhaps they will adapt as their users age, or perhaps they fall by the wayside.
In tough economic times, a great deal of pressure is going to be put on the whole world of social networking.
