Fujiko Suda: Worklife

Web Social Networking Business Potential

Mar 18, 2004 02:04 am / 1 comment

KNN Web Social Net­work­ing Busi­ness Poten­tial Sem­i­nar was held at Steel­case Tokyo Work­life Show­room on March 17th.

Since I was a staff help­ing to run the sem­i­nar, I did a lot of run­ning around and did not focus my atten­tion on the sem­i­nar. But parts of it I watched I enjoyed.

Frankly, I am find­ing that I am focused more and more on seren­de­pitous meet­ing with peo­ple. Although I am a mem­ber of Orkut, LinkdIn and gree, I don’t expect to develop any mean­ing­ful rela­tion­ship with peo­ple I meet solely on the web.

I’ve had good num­ber of very sat­is­fy­ing, very stim­u­lat­ing meet­ings on long air­plane flights. I may not have devel­oped long term rela­tion­ship with these peo­ple, but they are truly mem­o­rable encoun­ters in my life.

Of course this means I am get­ting old. I am at a point that I can no longer change the way I process my thoughts. It is no longer fun. So I decided to try out liv­ing in the old way as much as I could. It feels lib­er­at­ing, just to live in the way that feels good to me, right to me. I respect men and women of younger gen­er­a­tion and have high hope for them. They do crazy things, but no cra­zier than things I did in teenage years or twenties.

This has been a round about way of say­ing that yes, I do think web social net­work­ing has good busi­ness poten­tial in Japan.

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