Comments on: The Most Important P2P Trends of 2008 and 2009 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-most-important-p2p-trends-of-2008-and-2009/2009/01/16 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:02:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Sepp Hasslberger https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-most-important-p2p-trends-of-2008-and-2009/2009/01/16/comment-page-1#comment-365055 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:02:32 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2330#comment-365055 More on the growth of social network participation. The article makes the point that many more young rather than older people are into social networks, but the overall growth is still impressive:

“Of the roughly three-quarters of U.S. adults who go online, 35 percent use social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn, Pew found in a survey of 2,250 people late last year. Just 8 percent of adult Web users were on social networking sites four years ago.

Through the most recent survey and other polls last year, Pew determined just how much more likely it was for younger people to be participating in social networks. Some 65 percent of online teenagers 12 to 17 use the sites, and three-quarters of Internet users between 18 and 24 have a profile.”

]]> By: Sepp Hasslberger https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-most-important-p2p-trends-of-2008-and-2009/2009/01/16/comment-page-1#comment-365008 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:25:44 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2330#comment-365008 I miss the growth of social networks, which to me seems nothing short of phenomenal, involving ever greater slices of the mainstream public instead of just early adopters and “old hands”.

While the social networks themselves aren’t (yet) based on open source software and more importantly aren’t (yet) using distributed computing and storage capabilities in true p2p fashion, the networks do raise awareness of such possibilities and eventually will lead to a great advance of p2p software and direct interaction.

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