Charlie Rose

futurevisionaries  04/22/2011 09:00 PM Report

Can you help or know of people or companies that can help?

I need to save global FUTURE brands for and by the global people and countries.

My name is Kent G Anderson .

I see where 12 years of my life's work and ideas can help all people in all countries. My goal is to share the global Brand FUTURE... Future is design like a country and people's ideas are the global product. For more information about me and global people FUTURE google Kent G Anderson. My web page is www.futurevisionaries.com .

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925 N Griffin

Bismarck,ND

58501

USA

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salgadoce  01/11/2011 08:27 PM Report

I'm not wary of Facebook because I own a competing company whose business and profits will suffer; I'm wary of Facebook because of the effect it will have on human flourishing.

Social networks facilitate sharing, but sharing seems to be overtaking creating as the dominant activity in the internet realm; and when people do manage create something new, it's usually just a new way of sharing. Every minute spent sharing content on Facebook--which usually turns out to be largely trivial content in the grand scheme of things--is a minute not spent on creating the next automobile, or revolutionary cure, or epic poem, or renewable energy process, etc.

robdverity  01/11/2011 06:21 PM Report

With any luck the social media spike will die with unsatisfying familiarity, hollowness and ultimately maturity.

REMant  01/11/2011 10:38 AM Report

Well, $50 billion is only an extrapolation. It remains to be seen. Networking has a long history, of course, which vastly predates the Internet. It's what Dale Carnegie, et al were all about. I think it grew as real community declined and markets arose to replace them. It represents a bifurcation that is still ubiquitous, and not likely, despite the hopes of many "progressives," to evaporate. It was this division, actually, which exercised the little gray cells of David Hume and James Madison when they pondered the form of a perfect commonwealth, and it is still obvious in the college curriculum.

Despite having half-a-trillion accounts (not all ppl) I get no sense of that size when I search on it. Indeed, my feeling is quite the opposite. I can rarely find anyone I'm looking for. It seems to be an aggregation or consolidation of Internet applications. Its value is as a market-maker, tho secondarily, it is a portal. But you can make friends and discuss stuff just as well or better on any number of specialized forums (which you can find through search engines), or manufacturers' and retailers' websites. The similar LinkedIn appears just a slight improvement over Thomas' Register, Hoovers or a D & B directory. While users appear intent on advancing their careers, marketers are hoping that opinions will generate sales, and/or act as focus groups. I think tho that Facebook is likely to go the way of MySpace, overcrowded with nonsense, yet this is the great attraction, like the Internet generally. Ironically, it seems that its greatest asset, the forming of communities, is also the great restraint on its use, unlike Twitter.

If Facebook fails it won't be because it hasn't its share of Harvard and Sanford and Google alumni, but it is interesting to note that while they graduated summa cum laude, etc, the founder, like Bill Gates, didn't graduate at all. Sheryl Sandberg, I believe I saw rather unflatteringly on a Google video last week touting Gene Sperling's ability to cow business leaders, no doubt the kind who do evil.