It's the conversationsphere, baby.

Susan Mernit's Blog: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn: It's the conversationsphere, baby.:

Or, it's the conversationsphere, baby.

Or, to spell it out: LinkedIn is the broad circle, FB the known universe, and twitter a smaller group. If I had more non tech friends on twitter, I'd focus on them,

Or, in other words, it's not YASN (yet another social network) it's LOSN (lots of social networks), each with their own hierarchy of value and exchange.

(And if I were the proprietor of any social media property--or even of a social search tool--I'd be reading this post right now and asking myself what spheres I'd want my product to fall into for the user and how I might present features and experiences that would support that goal.)

Almost exactly as I see it, although to me, Facebook and twitter overlap enough that I don't see value in using both (twitter is merely the facebook status updates in standalone mode); however, if I jettison facebook, I'll re-up on twitter. In fact, it is beginning to look a lot like facebook is a fad, not the pony you want for christmas, amd twitter might actually be the winner in the casual/informal communication space. We'll see.

And if *I* were running or building a social media property, I'd be trying to figure out how to live in all of these spaces while still allowing users to separate those spaces out and give them separation and privacy from space to space. The network that figures out how to keep things simple: -- by not requiring users to manage and update multiple spaces -- that's the network that's most likely to "win". Easier said than done, as it really requires more than groups, it almost requires a morphable identity based on who is viewing it. Or maybe the ability to create multiple identities to a single account; wouldn't that concept be interesting.... (you might be Cindy to your professional contacts, but someone coming to the same page anonymously might see a very generic and not-too-identifiable identity, while the members of your mosh pit support group would get a page discussing GeekGrrl. Or maybe GeekGuy, depending on just how fried you want your identity model....