Top 10 Problems in the Existing Social Media

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Top 10 Problems in the Existing Social Media:

1. Too many people
2. Too many blog & articles
3. Too many bluffers
4. Too many Products
5. Too many Job Postings
6. Too many web sites
7. Too many Service Offerings
8. Too many Marketing promotions
9. Too many News
10. Too many Videos


1. Too many people :
There are Billions of People in the Social Media , thats good every one is using these.
But Each one has profile in the Twitter , LinkedIn, Facebook, MyBlog , Google , Windows Live , Yahoo and much more social sites.

To identify their value & how would they be helpful to you , No way to tell unless until you go through every profiles. To do so it takes lot of time of yours.

2. Too many blog & articles
There are Billions of blog posts & articles every day. Are these useful for you ? Not every blog posts & articles. But there are very important & useful blogs posts & articles.

To Identify which is useful & is it targeting on your interest?
Your time on getting to the important blog posts and articles are very high.

3. Too many bluffers
There are lot of bluffers.
How do you exclude these bluffers ?

4. Too many Products
There are lot of Products available , but which one is better , to do
-- need to search on the Feedback sites , but it takes lot of your time to compare.

5. Too many Job Postings
There are lot of Job Postings , which is real & genuine. Identify which is suitable for you is time consuming work for you.

Currently there are lot of systems provides Search based on Skills to match the job postings. But still you need to go through each one of the job postings.

6. Too many web sites
There are lot of Web Sites and Web Applications , how do you decide which one is important to you. There is no system compares & provide ranking. Some are there through the Google Rank.But how famous it is you do not know until you go through their content & attractiveness.

7. Too many Service Offerings
Lot of Service Offerings by different companies or free lance service Providers.
Which Service Offering is better or good or at least not worst ?

8. Too many Marketing promotions
Too many Marketing , advertising & Sale promotions ,
How do you identify which is useful Promotions for what you are looking for ?

9. Too many News
Too many News , but there are important news for you to know. How do you get that news when it is happening. In this, Twitter is good at least gives you current happenings. But which type of News are important to you.

10. Too many Videos
Too many videos are posted every day , which one is important to you , thats very tough to identify.

Almost every time I go to www.YouTube.com , at least takes 1-2 hours in that site to identify what I was looking for , but at last I am lost ,then I need to think about why did I go there in the first place & what I was looking for.

All of the above items make me(/you) to lost in the Social Media websites. That's good that you have lot info in these. But at the end of the day you spent whole day nothing accomplished.

As we all Social Media people , we need to build a system which takes care of above mentioned problems. Please provide your valuable inputs to solve & Resolve.

Final Questions :
How do we identify what is worth of those to you ?
Do you really need to go through all of them to identify what is important to you ?

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