Can I be so bold as to make a prediction around Gmail and Social Networking?
I’m not a big fan of predictions… but can I be so bold as to predict that GMAIL will rival Facebook as the biggest social network online in 3 years time?
Considering established user profiles and user information, status updates, avatars and instant messaging, all Gmail (read: Google) needs to do still is organize user profiles to better indicate relationships between profiles and consequently facilitate sharing of experiences/content between profiles.
Why not iGoogle or Google Wave? Purely as email still forms the cornerstone around which social networks (and other web services for that matter) are built. Facebook being no exception in this regard. Put even simpler, you cannot be part of a social network without an email address and social networks won’t survive without users being ‘reminded’ of social networking activity via email.
Let it be logged: 7 December 2010, 12:22pm, Louis Janse van Rensburg predicted that GMAIL will rival Facebook as the biggest social network by 2013.
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