The (not so) secret life of a networked and networking scholar

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The (not so) secret life of a networked and networking scholar
Paul Prinsloo, Open distance teaching and learning, 2016/07/19
I am increasingly left wondering how long social networks - Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn - can survive. They can disappear absurdly quickly - remember Friendster? MySpace? And I think that dissatisfaction with the existing sites is strong enough that users will quickly drop them if something better comes along. More...