i find this very interesting for those of us who believe in the whole movement to social media but also fear the overhyped environment that (some of us) lived through in 1.0. i’m intrigued to read kara’s post on FB apps.

we recently spoke to a well known VC / angel about his thoughts on social media (which he loudly proclaims to ‘hate’). he did lay out what we have started to term the ‘sophie problem’: his teen daughter actually spends almost NO time on email. her entire online life is (today) on FB.

we cautioned him, however, from believing that this is a persistent behavioral pattern. we believe that as she matures and her life broadens from just those in her HS social scene, she will find email again, just as she will other interesting networks where some of her new friends hang out, or that express her interests better than FB, even with its app platfrom or that is just plain neutral.

what will be interesting is whether FB starts to function as real email, i.e. allowing people to send and receive email from the outside. i’m actually surprised that they don’t do this already (they kind of do, but there is no address book and to reply, you have to do so inside FB email.)

oh, and so much more.

tpayne