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The Internet has given rise to many phenomena in American culture.  Arguably the most significant lasting social change of the Internet comes in the form of people making statements.  In the inorganic medium of the Internet, anyone can rant about anything anytime they want to.  Between Tweets on Twitter, Facebook status updates and any number of message boards on any of a million websites, for the first time in the history of humanity, anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can feel like they have a voice that is being heard.

Not everything said on the Internet is a gem of human wisdom.

Just as in real life, where once you say something you cannot take it back, Internet users – thanks to things like the Facebook Timeline – are discovering that what they say lingers online, even for years.  But with all of the people posting very publicly about everything in the world, the Internet is now giving users the equivalent of leaving the room where you can hang out with a bunch of friends you actually like!  These new, limited, social networks, have the potential to restore actual family and friend interactions amid all of the noise of more popular Internet social networks.

Proust was one such intimate social network.  Designed to compete against Ancestry.com, Proust was a social network (closing at the end of January 2012) for family members to create narratives of their lives to share with one another and future generations.  The media-rich interface offered users a unique “hook” in that family members were encouraged to ask one another probing questions that you would then respond to in a thorough, considerate, and educated fashion.

Path remains a popular intimate social network.  As an app for smartphones, Path is a social network designed for you to share images and videos taken with your smartphone with your family.  A little more gimmicky, the app combines the idea of keeping a journal with sharing that journal as a multimedia experience with those who are most important to you.  Path is growing, but has not caught on as strongly with those not connected (to the Internet or one another) via smartphones.

Coming soon is Ourspot.  Ourspot makes its full debut in the next few days.  Like Path, the creators of Ourspot intend the site to be a multimedia journal that you share with friends and family.  The Ourspot definition of “friends and family” is far more traditional than the Facebook or Myspace definitions and it is a site truly intended to foster genuine, real life relationships.  Ourspot features your photos and videos combined with your stories of the events they depict.  This provides a truly secure and intimate virtual location to take your relationship from the real world.  Essentially, Ourspot seeks to replace both a journal and a photo album!

These smaller social networks are about actual connections, which can be very refreshing after years of the trendy handouts like Myspace and Facebook!

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