I have never understood why people are so obsessed with social networking websites. To me they have very limited usage.
Take facebook for example. I do have an account, my wife volunteered to create one for me without my approval. I have a few pictures of me there, few links to my websites, I even imported my RSS feed from my religious blog. Now what? Yes, I click on other people's profiles, I even found a few old friends. However, that is it.
I log in into my account once in a while. Why do I do that? I don't know. I get poked a lot, and again, I don't quite know why. I wish I could see what the deal is.
I remember in the old days I talked in chat rooms and I found that this form of social networking is a lot more real (and in real time). The interaction is not just by poking but by actually talking with other people. Some social networking do have chat built in but it is not the main focus of the sites. It seems that the new way to socialize over the net is getting further and further away from actual human contact. Something tells me that this is not so good.
I could, of course, be very wrong and some of you may find facebook and the like to be quite wonderful places where you can keep in touch with all your friends. To me it just doesn't work.
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