Height of the internet-age would be registering the user name of an unborn child and creating his social profile.

There are hundreds of applications, thousands of enterpreneurs and young talent and resulting in millions of users of the world wide web. Applications connecting people — yeah, the so called Social Networking phenomenon has impacted everything from selling car to sharing music to reviewing movie.

I am neither an environmental speaker nor tend to become one. These are few suggestions I would like to make to these social data crunchers, about what they can do.

1. Platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, Orkut should make sure to have atleast 5% of their space/ advertisement devoted to some social message.

2. These platform should encourge and promote the vendor apps, which can make a difference for the environment or carry a message in their business model.

3. This can be a little tricky — Sublimal message — it does work, right? Now if used in the right way it can do wonders considering the number of users looking at these messages.

4. Hammer the users with some low hanging suggestions/ inputs — e.g. Switch off you laptops/ computers when not in used. Don’t just keep them running.

5. Build functionalities and promote them which are around car pooling, sharing a ride

6. Build functionalities which allow users not only share just music and pictures, but also share information about things they want to re-cycle or give away non-degradable items so some other friend can use it instead of being thrown away.

7. I really would like to see an application which comments on industries, factories and organizations which cause huge pollution and doesn’t get caught. Users should know about these culprits, so their products/ services gets boycotted. After all you believe you friend on his movie review, why can’t you believe in him if he comments about someone screwing the nature.

8. Collective intelligence - Obama has already done it. Why can’t these platforms and entrepreneurs do it — create placeholder where every user has to contribute and act.

Frankly, I am thinking about a body which can make sure that every internet social user is paying his or her dues/ taxes through these platforms, which are part of our lives now.

Related posts:

1. Role of Social Media in Political Landscape Using Internet and Social Media to help win elections...
2. When to stop exploiting the Social Media – An example I am doing some research for a service around...
3. Social Policing Sometime back I came across this article in Economist....

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.