Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Week 8, #18

"Social Networking" - a way to expand one's acquaintances. It's like having your picture in your school yearbook - you can meet folks you haven't seen before even though they are just down the hall from you.

Yes, I watched the "Social Networking in plain English" video, but I did not sign up for "Bookface" (don't wish to be on that, thank you) so I couldn't tour it. The Newsweek article on the growth of Facebook is no longer available, but their are dozens of articles about the popularity, uses, etc. However, none of them inspired me enough to want to join.

- The Myspace "home page" (is that what you call it?) had nothing of interest to me.
- Facebook requires you to "signup" in order to view any aspect of it - thanks, I prefer not to.
- Ning looks very similar to Myspace - there didn't appear to be any difference between them.
- Yahoo360, same stuff . . . These things give the impression that this planet covered with people who are desperately looking for companionship yet can't find it? Sad.
- Dogster is an excellent network, but I was surprized that of the claimed exhaustive list of breeds they failed to list the Anatolian Mastiff. So I sent them an e-mail asking why it's omitted.

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