Time to rant…
So it started years ago with AOL. Those money grubbing ISP’ers who made a fortune off me while I tried to figure out how text sex worked. Then MySpace came around and I got to design my profile! I made one up emulating my favorite role playing fantasy, Gunther, Dwarf Killer and Eater of Pizza. Now this is Fun! Unfortunately that profile didn’t produce many friends, just hungry role-playing losers. So then I tried to be more like myself and whala! I got over 100 friends in the 1st month. Most of them are artists, women in their 20’s, gay men, ex-Disney people, and women in their 30’s. But now it’s getting out of hand.
Now my wife wants to be my “friend” (I thought we were more than that). This means she will now be paying attention to my “other friends” and wondering why her husband is so twisted. She will get all my bulletins and will question me on every one. “So this is what you do at work?”, and “Who is Kitten Moon?” I don’t think I want to go there.
So is MySpace enough for the hard-core Social Networker? NO. I also have profiles on Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, HasBeens, Blogger, and a journal on DemocraticUnderground. I even tried to join Biip, but it requires Norwegian phone number… And to top if off, I just got invited to join LinkedIn. This shit is getting out of hand! Even my Blackberry is wired to these sites!!
So, Social Networking … what’s in it for me? Right now just a lot of work. Maybe I should just give it up and try to use the phone more often…