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However, I think the REAL differences in growth will be in number of critics, collectors, joiners, and spectators. (**described in Groundswell, listed below)

In effect, I think what will be most noticeable is in the number of people who’ll move from “inactive” to people who begin to consume social content. Some sooner then others, but eventually it’ll become inevitable in order to live in the 21st century.

–Debbie Hemley
http://www.impressionsthroughmedia.com

**from Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff:
1. Creators— make social content go. They write blogs or upload video, music, or text.
2. Critics—respond to content from others. They post reviews, comment on blogs, participate in forums, and edit wiki articles.
3. Collectors—organize content for themselves or others using RSS feeds, tags, and voting sites like Digg.com.
4. Joiners—connect in social networks like MySpace and Facebook.
5. Spectators—consume social content including blogs, user-generated video, podcasts, forums, or reviews.
6. Inactives—neither create nor consumer social content of any kind.

However, I think the REAL differences in growth will be in number of critics, collectors, joiners, and spectators. (**described in Groundswell, listed below)

In effect, I think what will be most noticeable is in the number of people who'll move from “inactive” to people who begin to consume social content. Some sooner then others, but eventually it'll become inevitable in order to live in the 21st century.

–Debbie Hemley
http://www.impressionsthroughmedia.com

**from Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff:
1. Creators— make social content go. They write blogs or upload video, music, or text.
2. Critics—respond to content from others. They post reviews, comment on blogs, participate in forums, and edit wiki articles.
3. Collectors—organize content for themselves or others using RSS feeds, tags, and voting sites like Digg.com.
4. Joiners—connect in social networks like MySpace and Facebook.
5. Spectators—consume social content including blogs, user-generated video, podcasts, forums, or reviews.
6. Inactives—neither create nor consumer social content of any kind.

However, I think the REAL differences in growth will be in number of critics, collectors, joiners, and spectators. (**described in Groundswell, listed below)

In effect, I think what will be most noticeable is in the number of people who'll move from “inactive” to people who begin to consume social content. Some sooner then others, but eventually it'll become inevitable in order to live in the 21st century.

–Debbie Hemley
http://www.impressionsthroughmedia.com

**from Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff:
1. Creators— make social content go. They write blogs or upload video, music, or text.
2. Critics—respond to content from others. They post reviews, comment on blogs, participate in forums, and edit wiki articles.
3. Collectors—organize content for themselves or others using RSS feeds, tags, and voting sites like Digg.com.
4. Joiners—connect in social networks like MySpace and Facebook.
5. Spectators—consume social content including blogs, user-generated video, podcasts, forums, or reviews.
6. Inactives—neither create nor consumer social content of any kind.

Not everyone will go to the effort of writing a blog post, but by creating a profile on Facebook or Myspace, or uploading a message via Twitter, you’ve taken part. And plenty of people are looking at tools like Twitter for integration in practical solutions to daily problems, rather than a social network/message service in itself.

Not everyone will go to the effort of writing a blog post, but by creating a profile on Facebook or Myspace, or uploading a message via Twitter, you've taken part. And plenty of people are looking at tools like Twitter for integration in practical solutions to daily problems, rather than a social network/message service in itself.

Not everyone will go to the effort of writing a blog post, but by creating a profile on Facebook or Myspace, or uploading a message via Twitter, you've taken part. And plenty of people are looking at tools like Twitter for integration in practical solutions to daily problems, rather than a social network/message service in itself.

When my grandma (who doesn’t have a computer) is looking at pictures on Flickr because she knows that’s the best place to find pictures of her great grandchild, it’s not too much of a leap to expect that in 20 years grandparents everywhere will think of using social media tools to communicate with their great grandkids.

That’s just one case where social media tools will become integrated into peoples lives; there are tons more that are obvious, others will arise as new tools and systems become available.