My good friend V urged me two or three years ago to set up a MySpace and a Friendster account. After frequent requests, I finally did. I looked up some high school and college friends and acquaintances, and then I said, "Now what?"
Even though we're a year apart in age, I've noticed that people from her class and later are much more present on social networking sites than my class and earlier.
Although I appreciate social networking in a cautious way, I dislike MySpace because it looks so tacky and also the creep factor associated with online stalkers. Also, I agree with Stephen Abram's daughter that it's the most teenyboppery of social network sites.
I do see how it's nice to have a pseudo e-mail service and a blog and lots more integrated in one site. But since I'd rather not have acquaintances see my personal blog, it's hosted through a different site and this handy dandy feature is therefore useless to me.
More importantly, after reading the articles linked to on the 27Things blog, I am growing in conviction that if our patrons are there, we should be there as well.
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