I guess it depends on what you mean by the "connected lifestyle." A focus on rapid-fire micro-updates sent out to a general audience instead of a more personali

I guess it depends on what you mean by the "connected lifestyle." A focus on rapid-fire micro-updates sent out to a general audience instead of a more personalized and thought out conversation? I think there are a number of people tired of that. But alternatives don't have to follow this model. They could be based around longer, more thought out and more personalized correspondence (like e-mail), or on developing real world communities (like Meetup). I think Slack is a good example of this. What it's doing is possible on other platforms, but it's better at what it does and so it's attracting a lot of attention. Eventually some site like that is going to attract enough people who start using it as there primary online interpersonal interaction page, and let their presence on other sites stagnate. At which point other people will start navigating to the platform simply because that's where everyone's going, and you'll get a snowball effect. Like with a lot of things, once it gets started it will probably happen very rapidly.