To a point, yes. But what’s really interesting is what’s NOT adopted here and how observing those trends predict the eventual outcome of tech sustainability. Much remains to be seen, but I stay skeptical that Twitter will be around very long … for reasons above and beyond the lukewarm response to it out here.

I do think that there is still a lot of undiscovered music in the social media mix yet. Third-party apps are appearing all the time and inter-connectivity is the way to go (check out something like http://socialmention.com as an example). So I think we’ll be around a few years yet – just in what shape or form is another matter.

@Randi – Considering that SF is home to Silicon Valley, is it any surprise that a lot of the techy and new media toys are adopted there? You could say that baseball is adopted in the US more, or soccer in Europe, or rugby in Australia. The point is that’s where the core audience is – not that they are necessarily leaders in the field.

And – on a more ethnocentric note – I believe that the San Francisco Bay area provides key insight into which technologies are fads and which are trends. Everyone in SF/SV had the very first iPhone, whereas it took a little longer for the craze to hit the rest of the country in the same way. On that note, no one here seems to care much about the Google Android and it hasn’t seemed to make a mark anywhere in the U.S. since its introduction last fall. Furthermore, although MySpace seemed to peak nationally a couple of years ago, no one in the Bay Area was really interested – but they were all on MySpace’s then-ugly step-brother, Facebook. And who currently stands triumphant in the battle for top social networking application? Facebook. Similarly, LinkedIn has been widely used here for years, before it really caught on anywhere else. But Twitter? No one cares. I could name two people out here who have Twitter accounts – and I am one of them (and haven’t updated my status since December). So, if the Bay Area’s track record of embraced trends is honestly a good indicator of which technologies survive natural selection, then Twitter will be off our radars within a year.

Of course, if I turn out to be wrong, feel free to tell me that you “told me so.”

As a casual hip-hop fan myself, I, too, would love to see what that genre of social media would look like! Hmm … maybe fodder for another blog post?!?

In line with your analogy – the early adopters of Rock & Roll had a much different experience when they started listening to and interacting with it then when it became mainstream. In effect, the Rock & Roll that those early adopters knew – disapeared. The same is happening in the Social Media world. New ideas come and go and the good ones stick around. The early adopters of those new ideas (whether they stick around or not) have a much different perspective on them then those who start using them after they’ve reached popularity.

So I do take offense at the offhand use of my blog post without thouroughly reading it – but I also agree with your blog post – Social Media has followed a similar path to Rock & Roll and will be here for a long time (but not in the same ways as when it started).

I can’t wait for the Hip-Hop of the web to start – that will be really interesting