As an active contributor, blogger website owner (www.spangy.com) and social networking animal (since 1993), I am certainly part of the 1%. However, communities and the financiers of those communities tend not to have the patience and depth of personal desire to see things through. We’ve reached a point, where things are supposed to happen fast since you can build a site or community relative fast these days.

What is missed however is that these are people? People want to develop a relationship; they want to move at their own pace. So, we can’t dismiss the positive good will and positive things that the voyeurs of the Internet say about high quality content and experiences. My mother is a good example, she will likely not be a contributor per se, but she will share good content with me by picking up the phone to tell me.

The blogosphere by its very term tends to be elitist, snooty and full of prima donnas. Literacy is important, for certain, but we often let our minds naturally close to focusing on the delivery rather than the message. For social networking to advance, it has to embrace regular people, which is why MySpace is so popular, not because of its design or weak content. The whole asking people to be friends is awkward as well and actually silly—assuming you are an adult. So my hat is off to the folks at Forrester for a valiant effort. Things will become clearer and the terms crisper in the months ahead, but the trajectory of their thoughts are on point.