Bob Cringely ponders whether or not social networking is destined, like CB Radio, to crash and burn.

I think social networking will be around for a while, but its popularity's going to dwindle some over time. I find it to be a bit of work to keep up with too many different people on too many different sites these days. Even though I still have an account on LinkedIn from years back, I don't think I've logged on there since '06, because I can't think of anything I'd be interested in there that I can't get from another virtual location. These days I gravitate more toward tools like Google Reader that can aggregate data from bunches of different blogs and other sources these days, and anything that can't be pulled into such a site gets left behind.

What do you guys think about the proliferation of closed social sites on the IntarWeb?

Just found this excellent video about how the Web is evolving, and its users are evolving with it.