We all know Bloggers is a great new site for us with amazing database capabilities!

I would venture to say that as a blogger connected to this site, you are one of the newcomers, an early adopter so to speak. You can see that there are less than 50,000 blogs signed up to bloggers as I write this (please correct me if I am wrong!)

Let's try and predict the future direction of this site for a moment.

First, it is not hard to predict that the capabilities will increase and it's connectivity will improve over time. That is, you will likely become more seemlessly connected to your other online sites a la google & facebook.

Now if I recall, when Facebook first started to become popular you could add as many friends as you like. It was not uncommon to see users with multiple "identities" each having over 1000 friends. You could simply click,click,click and add 50 friends in a couple of minutes. This is no longer possible!

Terms of service for Facebook now dictate a single identity and only allows adding suggested friends in moderation. Add more than 2 unknown friends in a row and your account will be temporarily disabled from adding friends. Of course Facebook has valid reasons for wanting to control and direct the user experiences for the benefit of the majority; enough said about facebook.

What about Bloggers? In the future you may be able to broadcast info to your friends, birthday invitations, event announcements and so on. Bloggers will want to improve functionality while controlling abuse at the same time; it only a natural progression.

My advice and prediction?....make as many friends as you can now, like, follow and connect with as many people as you can NOW early on in the growth of Bloggers. Your future value online will be measured in large part by your influence...build that influence now respectfully and sensibly and you will benefit down the road.

Let me know what you think?
Do you agree?
Any predictions for the future of Bloggers or the Internet in general?
I would love to hear from you! :)