It seems we could do a George Carlin bit on all of the social networking sites, tools and technology that are available today. For the A-list I think it boils down to possibly two. One is your actual blog (ala Scoble) and two is Twitter.
For the rest of us regular folks we probably need to pick and engage in a few additional tools. In my case I've settled on Facebook and Linked In and Twitter on occassion but I'm dubious of the benefit of me sharing what I'm eating or what I'm doing with kids. I'm curious how others major their online personas or if folks feel overloaded like I do as I get asked to participate in more and more social networks.
A social membership somewhere--Linked In and Twitter almost seem to be the new digital tools that everyone needs and I would say a blog IS the new resume in alot of ways.
I'm also not ignoring things like You Tube or Flickr but it seems to me that those are more akin to services that we would leverage with these other sites. Is social networking the CB radio of our generation? It's very hard for me to belive that it is. If you're not creating your own digital persona someone (or something) is already doing it for you via clickstreams and datamining. Social Networking provides a way for you to exercise an element of control in that dynamic.
I share your thoughts 100%.
It is amazing that there are so many social networking sites out there and more are born every day!!
Posted by: Kiran | July 06, 2007 at 04:20 PM