Citizendium Blog

I got an interview request out of the blue from a Frankfurter Rundschau reporter last week.  He wanted to know what I thought about various Web 2.0 topics like Second Life and MySpace.  I gave him some off-the-cuff answers.  This was turned into a story: “MySpace wird bald uncool” or “MySpace will soon be uncool.”  I am now the arbiter of coolness!!!

I didn’t quite say that; I just made the off-the-cuff observation, “More and more people will come to agree with me that MySpace-type social networking websites are annoying. Well, I don’t really know that, I’m just hoping.”  Believe me, I’m the last person you want to ask what will become cool or uncool to teenagers.  It is laughable to suppose I know anything, or care, about that.  I was just expressing my hopes, my dreams, not actually making a prediction.  (Actually, I’m on FaceBook myself.)  I also don’t (or didn’t, until last week) know that boomers now have their own MySpace-clone social networks.  “Ehrlich gesagt, wusste ich gar nicht, dass so etwas schon existiert,” I said, but not in German.  But somehow, this seems plausible for the aging Aquarians I know.

CZ got a plug anyway!