Anti-Social Networking (Page 1 of 4 )
Networking, in the social sense of the word, has received some unusual assistance from technology. Read on to find out how various forms of electronics have made it easier to find kindred geeks at conventions and trade shows.
Social networking is the buzzword of the month, with new people-linking websites like Orkut (www.orkut.com) and LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) cropping up. The concept for most of these sites involves Breck-like advertising (you tell two people and they tell two people and so on, so forth, and etc.) often becoming a challenge to see how many “friends” one can make. But social networking is not a new concept; it's making technological strides in meatspace as social websites occupy journalists and hipsters.
We are sitting at the pre-dawn of the antisocial networking era. Imagine if you would, attending a convention where you could locate developers with similar interests and exchange information, business contacts, and files all without uttering a word. It’s a dream of any conventioneer tired of forgetting names, misplacing business cards, and making scintillating conversation with the boss’s accountant. With the integration of smart badges, USB drives, and PDAs, we may be closer to realizing that dream than ever before.
Networking, in a social context, requires a certain amount of charm, sparkling small talk, and an extroverted personality. It’s a skill necessary to make contacts and progress forward in any given field, but very few people master it. To prevent too many wall-flowers, an ice-breaker is needed. Sometimes it’s in the form of entertainment or a motivational speaker, sometimes its alcohol, and other times it can be an interesting workshop. And now there’s a new ice-breaker on the scene: nTag.
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