No. More. Social. Networks!

July 7th, 2007

Seriously how many social networks does one have to join in order to feel loved and connected to your “friends.” I dont even know 99.9999% of the people that call me a friend in most social network sites. Do we really need to know that much about other people? Do we really that much of a connection with others?

There’s twitter, Pownce, Jaiku and countless others that basically do the same thing: tell others what you are currently doing or thinking. I have to admit that Im a bit of a twitter junkie but do we really need a gazillion other sites like it?

There seems to be a social network site for everything these days. Are you a sex offender or a bit of a mental retard? Then MySpace is your best bet. Do you like colour? Try ColourLovers (I shit you not, its a real site for “colour lovers”! WTF!) Like to wear clothes, as opposed to the rest of us that like to run around naked? Then you belong at trendmill.com. And there are various others in this field as well. Design snob? There’s my favourite Virb.com. There’s Chess.com for Chess geeks. LinkedIn is the boring intellectual dork in the social network sites party that no one wants to talk to; even though its a great networking tool to get jobs etc. Facebook thinks its just better than all the rest by closing its site to everyone other than its members. Snobs are we? Kinda like AOL was back in the day. Orkut started it all back in 2001. There’s Tagged for teens. . . .I can go on and on.

Whats next? A site for potheads? One for Lovers of beef jerky? What about one for goats? I know there’s a site for pet lovers but I mean goats! How can you go wrong with that? Goats. Come on, someone make a social network site for goat-lovers before I do!

1 Comment


  1. 1 Van Jul 8th, 2007 at 10:48 am

    yeah, too many social networks! Too many invitations went into my mailbox. And what did I do? Deleting all of them!

    MySpace? OMG, that sucks big time!

    But colourLovers is quite Okay!

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