Crowdsourcing/Open Source- the new networks

Networking is widely known as connected and communicating with people to create relationships.  Now networking has transformed with crowdsourcing and open source networks.  People do not need to create relationships face to face, but through online platforms.  Although it does take out the "human" interaction aspect of things, this does allow for conversations to be start globally.  As a potential MIS major this is mainly what I want to be more involved with, the areas of cloud computing, crowdsourcing, and open sources.  I think this will change the way we interact, communicate, and most importantly learn.  It let's people read from other's taking away the barriers of emails.  It gives people across the globe access to ideas and relationships they would never have.