http://www.cio.com/article/608772/Apple_Announces_ITunes_10?source=rss_news
Apparently, you can "create a "circle of friends," view what your friends are buying and listening to or watching, post your thoughts and opinions on artist and album pages, keep track of more than 17,000 concert listings, and mark which ones you're going to."
Because obviously EVERYONE needs to know that you bought an entire edition of Sesame Street Live for your kid...or was it for you?
The Point: Haven't we gotten so immersed in this transparent culture where we have to know where everyone is and what everyone does, that we have nothing better to do than follow the music purchases of others on iTunes? Sure, it might be another way for artists to connect with their fans, but I'm thinking that if you have lots of fans,the connection is going to be limited anyway. And really, who needs to know about 17,000 concerts?
Just another way that we can let our entire network of "friends" know every detail of our lives.
I couldn't agree more that yet another social networking application is only watering down how we live our lives. People believe checking someone's facebook statue or following them on twitter constitutes their friendship with one of their "friends." I know I will never join Ping because it just seems like a time wasting distraction to me, where i would much more rather an iTunes application on facebook that can somehow incorporate Ping's basic uses. But i guess as long as our society keeps using social networking sites, internet companies will keep pumping them out like Octomom in a delivery room.
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