Quote Originally Posted by Recursion View Post
The problem is a lot of people use different social networks for different things. My audience on Facebook is a lot different to my audience on Twitter, I use both for different things... maybe it's just me but I don't particularly want them to cross paths.

As I said earlier though, today the internet is all about information. Everyone is setup on Facebook, they keep their service cutting edge and fresh (come on, people complain about the layout changes but they learn to love them) and everyone has ALL their data linked to/upload to it. The reluctance for people to move because of where their data is stored is the major problem because that reluctance mounts up when you have huge groups of friends that don't want to budge until the rest of their friends do in the first place... it's a vicious cycle in that respect.

Facebook is a very personal yet diverse and public medium, if you can think up a new social site by all means give it a go, but I reckon Facebook's here to stay. Your best bet would be to go after smaller sites like LinkedIn.
Yeah exactly - Linkedin works because it's for a niche - it's like an online CV and handy for people job hunting. If you could think of something similar that will appeal to an audience and actually get them to want to have an account on it separate to facebook then you have a winner. That however is the tricky part