My prediction is that attention will start to wain once people begin to get the same overwhelming feeling that they now have for email. This might take place once you have a certain number of friends, join a certain number of groups or simply participate in so many different online communities it’s hard to keep up with it all.

Hopefully MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and the others will begin rolling out better features to let us organize (not aggregate) all this information.

Thanks for sharing.

For the first time, there is evidence of a distinction between “Social Universes,” such as the sites mentioned in this article, and “Social Communities,” which are smaller groups, kind of villages, of people who share a common interest or passion. One example is the groups within Linkedin.

As the Social Universes grow so do these communities. Perhaps, this is the most significant change in the virtual landscape in the past few years. The momentum and wake of these growing social networks will continue to evolve the online experience, such as the Twitter phenomenon, another growing Universe.

Phill Barufkin