Preventing an online identity crisis

Well, nothing comes easy.

 

 

The profusion of niche social communities is quite amazing. With people having multiple social networking accounts, the efficiency of each account gets bigger and wider. At the same time, having multiple personalities forces you to keep track of too much information and starts getting too much of a hassle. That's why there's a new spirit of finding that "one place that will manage all my social life".

 

3 days ago Profilactic.com launched their beta site, which lets you put links to your social networks and mash up your friends' content. Profilactic supports about 30 default sites, but you can add unlimited sites of your choice, so it basically supports every site.

 

Thing is - you still need to check your individual page for any new updates/comments/feeds. you won't be notified on any event, or have the feeling you are experiencing a true and living community (except the new community you've just built on your Profilactic account).

 

Bottom line - I'm not sure if having a webpage with links to all our profiles really meets the requirements we, the social freaks, need. Obviously nothing can really replace the user experience of traveling across MySpace, finding new bloggers and so on - That's something we don't really want to replace. But if indeed people are getting tired of managing all their profiles, I say - let nature take its course. Eventually the user's necessity will bring us all towards a new networking evolution.

 


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