Selfish Use before Shared Use

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from Joshua Porter "From now on I'm going to call this idea the 'Del.icio.us Lesson'. This is the lesson that personal value precedes network value: that selfish use comes before shared use. We're seeing it more and more everyday in services like Del.icio.us, Flickr, and is an interesting aspect of networked applications. Even though we're definitely benefitting from the value of networked software, we're still not doing so unless the software is valuable to us on a personal level first. "
Comment: I suspect this will be the stumbling block for participation in the feedbook model where use of services such as Flickr, blogs, del.icio.us and so on are not part of their world yet.