"In real life most people only have one social network one professional network." ~Simon Wakeman (June 24) I disagree with this statement. I don't believe that offline most people only...
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"The study found that nearly 40 percent of MySpace users also keep profiles on other social networking sites such as Friendster and Facebook... Nearly half of all social networkers regularly use...
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I'll join in too. Recently Wendy Piersall, Dennis Bjørn Peterson and Gayla McCord have decided to post their social networking sites on their blogs and invite people to add them to their friends...
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Peter Norvig, the director of research at Google, estimates the Internet currently holds about 100 trillion words. Since he used to be a NASA Ames researcher he may be one of the best people to make...
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I never gave it a thought. How much can pulses of energy moving across space and wires actually weigh? Here's an article about another article that attempts to answer the question of how much the...
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This woman wrote about the 25 different ways to view what social networking is. The list includes things such at the friendship perspective and the youth perspective but also include things like the...
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"Perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought the internet was a place where miserable, antisocial misanthropes could hide from the real world and occasionally make contact with other miserable,...
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"A major new study investigating the relationship between social networking websites and web users has found that members of such sites rank them above television viewing in terms of...
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Laura Alter's Blog says that social networking may be more popular than porn on the Net. One of the comments on the post claims that one of the reasons is that people are finding real people on...
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by Linda Roeder on April 19, 2007
"Contrary to how it is widely perceived, social networking sites aren't the domain of bored teenagers or frustrated adolescents." ~The Sunday Times Online, April 8 I couldn't agree...
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by Linda Roeder on April 11, 2007
"...social networkers frequenting an average of three social networking sites ...these same online socialites say there is still room in their lives for more sites." ~Seeking Alpha, Mar 29...
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by Linda Roeder on April 06, 2007
There are so many social networking sites out there today. How do you know which one is right for you? There are the general social networking sites like MySpace, Orkut, Friendster and Xanga where you...
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by Linda Roeder on April 06, 2007
The argument goes that people who spend time blogging or social networking are there because they are antisocial people and don't have friends in the real world. Or, they are people who used to...
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by Linda Roeder on March 30, 2007
Social networking is made up of many different things. You probably belong to many different kinds of social networks to keep yourself in touch with your world. GregsBlog calls it the "Hub and...
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by Linda Roeder on March 29, 2007
When you decided which social networking site was right for you, how did you decide? Did you just choose the one your friends are using? Did you choose MySpace just because it's the biggest? Did...
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by Linda Roeder on March 29, 2007
Go to your favorite social networking site and count how many friends you have. Do you have more than 10? 50? 100? Some people like making new friends on their social networking sites. They may never...
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by Linda Roeder on March 05, 2007
I was driving down the road the one night when I saw this one tractor trailer having trouble getting through this dark intersection. Then I noticed the truck next to him slow down almost as if to wait...
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by Linda Roeder on February 15, 2007
People have been networking for, well, ever. When you want to get a new job and you ask your friends if they know of anyone who is hiring, you are networking. When you need a new dress for a...
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by Linda Roeder on February 14, 2007
I belong to over a dozen social networking sites right now. Some I joined so I could look for friends, others for research purposes for articles for both my sites. Each one offers me something...
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by Linda Roeder on February 01, 2007
Learning is traditionally done in groups with lots of people and discussion between teacher and student, student and student. e-Learning takes away from that by creating learning that is student and...
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by Linda Roeder on January 30, 2007
The online dating sites are now finding themselves in competition with the influx of social networking sites. Social networking sites are on the rise. With so many social networking sites, and MySpace...
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by pete on March 12, 2006
My buddy, Greg Narain, has launched xposted, a marketplace for buying and selling content: We've got two audiences in mind - buyers and sellers. Sellers include any and all bloggers,...
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by robyn on March 01, 2006
I am writing this with a heavy heart. I have resigned my position at Creative Weblogging, including the VoIP Weblog and the Social Networking Weblog, effective 3/1 due to the overwhelming demands of a...
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by pete on January 12, 2006
Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped points to a podcast interview with the founder of Digg, a social news aggregation and voting site: Also, Kevin talks about how surprised they all were when they...
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