I remembered when I was a little kid, we used to go to the library and spend countless hours at the index card section to sift through encyclopedias and then go and find all the information. Somedays you would spend the whole day at the library staring endlessly at vast amounts of information that was just alittle bit at a time or you’d find nothing. Then you’d have to look in another library. The task was exhausting somedays.
Long since then, I think the computer or the internet so to speak has provided such a great means of resources as well as garbage. Anyone can put up information, anyone can pick up the information and most likely, we may or may not validate on how true it is.
My role as a web designer and the business impact of social networking runs hand and hand but also parallel. As a web designer, I believe that being in a social network with other people that share and do the same things along the lines is fine. It helps me gain access to new clients and help build relationships with other people that I maybe useful to them or vice versa. I am hoping we are able to gather more data on people’s behaviors and habits that we can narrow down and be able to create more precise sites.
I also see this as a potential problem, as a web designer. I have ran into various other people that have told me that they design for the web only to find they only know how to drag and drop content onto a template. Which I frown upon in some aspects because I’ve heard some say that they were better designers than I was. It also depreciates the profession as people think they can do it with just the bare minimum out there.
The business aspect is going to be a challenge, I think people need to realize that this market can be lush with business and profit from it. Or it could crash us all. It’s interesting to see how they are going to get away from the pyramid scheme.
