As I get further and further into my "geek hobby" of the internet, I feel the need to be more connected to people that I know. Unfortunately, there are SO MANY programs out there that you can use to be "connected".
Of course there is the old standard: My Space, Facebook, and now Orkut from Google. But there are many other tools that are blog related or "micro" blog related as well. One thing I have started to use a little bit is twitter www.twitter.com.
The concept is for you to post your status on a regular basis to your "followers" and they get a text as to what you are doing. You can also use twitter to post informational "tweets" for your followers that will give them interesting articles to read on a blog or website or a picture or video to view. You actually post the link in the tweet.
There are also some sites like friendfeed that aggregate the things you are doing on various websites like ilike, filckr, picasa, and 30some odd other sites and post all of that activity on one site. Facebook and Myspace do this to some degree now.
I am not sure how all of this will play out, but some kind of social networking is definitely the future of the internet and how we communicate.
Well, that is it for now.
out.
Jeff
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