General Discussions

**Learning Newbie** · 04-01-2008, 10:17 PM

Personally I think this is 90 % hogwash, but a friend sent me an article that's supposed to be really interesting.

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The tribes of online participants who gather together in sites such as Digg, Second Wave, and Wikipedia are actually developing distinct sociological subcultures, according to Rob Key, CEO of a company called Converseon.

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Like other types of societies, social networks have their own "cultural elders," he observed. If an advertiser wants a product to become known on a site, Key suggested, it makes sense to first figure out "who is influential."

**zytex** · 04-01-2008, 11:15 PM

What like cults, well maybe a niche network

**Dairyman** · 04-02-2008, 05:58 AM

I consider the people on the social network group should once in a while come to live with the reality. Too much of online social meetings are not good for the mental health, imo

**mork29** · 04-02-2008, 09:17 AM

I saw an article that related the 80/20 rule to digg, and found it to be pretty close.

It seems that most of the pages that make front page, are originally posted by a relatively small group of people. I'm sure getting one of them in your corner certainly couldn't hurt if you were a blogger trying to drive traffic to your site.