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What's With These "Social Networking" Sites Anyway?      
  12/9/2007 4:03:30 PM

I remember vaguely joining Friendster several years ago.  It promised to help me find my old friends.  It did.  It got me in touch with some old high school and college friends.  After a while, no one updated their pages.  Along came MySpace.  Besides the negative publicity it got for non-children friendly content, every other person I know are on there.  Besides these two, I can probably come up with a dozen others that are not as popular.  For some reason, as if these are not enough, the latest one I heard about is Facebook.  After receiving my second invitation, I caved and signed up.  I could not believe the number of people I found on there already.  Some how, all the sites already out there was not enough.  In 3 days, I found 33 friends that have already authorized my request as their friend.  What's even more surprising to me is to find my pastor and his wife on it as well.

Interesting phenominon with people today is some how, we are more "talkative" and more expressive behind a keyboard and monitor.  Somehow, verbal expression is becoming a lost art.  Some how, we've lost the ability to keep a directory of friends and their contact info, and rely on these "Social Networking" sites to help us find them.  Some how, we've gone from "it's not safe to meet people online" to eHarmony.com and match.com.  What is it with these sites anyway...  Some how, I just know Facebook won't be the last...


 
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