My Social Networking Explanation

August 29, 2007 in In My Head by LwEEs

On a recent episode of Mac Roundtable and Victor’s Typical Mac User podcast, they started talking about social networking sites, again. They raised their voice explaining how social networking sites are a waste of time, and some are calling it “bacon” to the fact that you are spammed by your own friends with request to join new social network ideas that pops up almost on a weekly basis. I hate to do this, I’m 30 years old, and I know what is worth waste my time on and what not.

During the whole conversation, I felt like I should have been there to explain why social networking sites are not for everybody but at the same time is something that everybody should be aware. A podcaster that gets this the way I do is Mitch Joel from Six Pixels of Separation take your time to listen to him to understand what is going on with social networking sites. Social networking sites are a great tool to advertise who you are and what you do, there are so many of them that if you where to join and update them all on a daily basis you will go crazy.

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