I cannot believe how alone I feel in my concern over the future of social media.  No one, it seems, wants to talk about it.  Beatrice Tarka with Mobissimo teetered precariously close to an incredible conversation, offering a seemingly benign nugget of info (at least how it was received):  You may have to start preparing to pay for your brand presence on twitter.  They desperately need to monetize, and this is the quickest, ways to do so,  if not a dauntingly difficult task to achieve.

I am massively skeptical though.  Much of this is simply about marketing, not so much utilizing the tools or talking about social media so much as a how-to primer for positioning your brand on Facebook and Twitter.

Personally, I am incredibly worried about this… putting so many (more…)