I had a feeling that the heavy emphasis on live broadcasting, twittering and blogging during conferences would have a downside.

One attendee has had it and I can understand why.

Even the best social networking tools have their limits. And that limit seems to be reached when, instead of networking and speaking to the people in front of you, you’re “networking” and “speaking” to the people who are not.

After reading this post, an absurd thought came to me. How long until a conference reception with 400 attendees is completely silent because all the attendees are live blogging and twittering instead of talking to the person next to them? Heaven help us.