I want to take a minute to reflect on Mark Zuckerberg's now infamous second law of social media
“I would expect that next year, people will share twice as much information as they share this year, and next year, they will be sharing twice as much as they did the year before”
I think for the most part this type of growth is really happening. Those of us using digg and delicious for years are now stepping it up to twitter and friendfeed. Those of us who never used any social tools are sharing links and posting status updates to facebook. Wherever you are on the growth curve, though, most of us are doubling the amount of content and information that we're sharing year over year - whether it feels like it or not. Sharing content is really the way we all socialize on the web, it's the backbone of the most basic social networking, it's what makes it addictive rather than repetitive. And it's only going to become more mainstream, more commonplace, more build into our everyday actions naturally- we might as well accept it and get used to it.
(To see an example of how much content i share on the web, look at the red mybloglog widget on the right of this site, or check out out social footprint here)
