Social Networks come in a variety of shapes and forms. They provide a culture of "Synthetic closeness" (this is a term coined by a caller in an NPR Program).
Yet, if I want to use these socnets for the sole purpose of "connected consumption", it begins to break down,like the Google Reader does.
Google Reader works extremely well initially, with a small set of feeds. With power usage, as you add more things into your Reader, you would soon be inundated by the Stream of Contents. You learn to treat content,not as though, it is from an inbox, but as a stream.
Yet, you need to constantly forage to manage,what gets into the curated stream. This is where, the Friendfeeds of the world, come in. You could pretty much share your digital consumption portfolio, to your friends, by asking friendfeed, to pull content from a variety of sources from delicious bookmarks, to youtube favorites and the movies in Netflix.
So, you no longer have to tweet or Facebook Feed, whatever you consume in the internet, Friendfeed pulls it for you. This is an awesome affordance, if you want to share as well as easily consume what your friends consume.
Yet, the Quality of the curation stream is still limited by your "friending" ability. Friendfeed and its digital cousins, remove the "foraging ability" limitation and replace it with your limitation of "friendability".
Connected Consumption need not be and is not about socialization. In fact, Connected Consumption is not about socnets, but about "Curator Pools".
Curator Pools are powered by Algorithms that "naturally select" invisible curators dynamically for you, based on your consumption and reputation history.
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