S is for Social networking

As in online social networking. If you know 10 people at work and 20 people in your community you'll know 152,000 in Myspace, 30,000 in Facebook and 3,000 in Tribe. And that's just the tip of this particular iceberg. You also have video and image sharing sites, plus school and family reunion type sites, and work or professional sites that offer most of the same profiling, sharing and chat features. It's becoming more common and the edges are blurring.

Here are a few interesting sites to play with... this Salon blog is full of links to explore... Wikipedia has a list... Meredith's blog offers an interesting take on libraries and social networking... check out Huminity, an agent that runs on your PC and connects with a server than connects with all other Huminity users. If you have friends you can "see" their connectedness. And chat. It's IM with maps I guess. You can also learn about social libraries here at this blog.