Where Kickstarter uses the web to connect like - minded niche consumers and capitalizes on existing social networks for marketing, other examples of the sharing economy follow a more traditional path. (canadianbusiness.com)
The designs of existing social networks reflect this universal human state so poorly as to suggest they are far from the be-all and end - all of their kind. (newscientist.com)
At the same time, they noted that rare disease patients and families who were using existing social networks to make connections were running up against the limitations of those platforms, such as balancing worldwide reach with patient privacy and achieving consistency in terminology. (ashg.org)