Anti-Social Network Behavior
How much are we supposed to take, at what point do we stand up as a society and say enough is enough, I’ve had all I can stand and I can’t stands no more. Of course I am talking about social networking. Whether its profiles on Myspace, photos on Flickr, zombies on Facebook, job inquires on linked in, or phone calls from angry Dutchmen on Skype. The 21st century netizen is wallowing in choices to be social without being seen. according to Wikipedia (itself a sort of social site, while not necessarily networking based,it has become a clubhouse for grammarians and nitpickers the world over) the following are the notable social networking sites.
List of social networking websites
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Name Description/Focus User count Registration 43 Things Goal and Dreams; Tagging 1,007,433[1] Open Advogato Free software and open source developers 11,000[2] Open Amina – Chechen Republic Online Chechens 3,500+[3] Open aSmallWorld European jet set and social elite 150,000[4] Invite-only Badoo European young adults 12,000,000[5] Open Bebo Schools and colleges 34,000,000[6] Open BlackPlanet African-Americans 16,000,000[7] Open Blue Dot Link sharing 80,000[8] Open Broadcaster.com Video sharing and webcam chat 26,000,000[9] Open Buzznet Music and pop-culture 500,000+[10] Open CarDomain Car enthusiasts 1,600,000[11] Open Care2 Green living and social activism 7,744,297[12] Open Classmates.com School, college, work and the military 40,000,000[13] Open Consumating “Consumeetings” 21,000[14] Open CouchSurfing Hospitality 281,000[15] Open Cyworld Young South Koreans 21,200,000[16] Open Dandelife Collective narratives or “shared biographies” Unknown Open Dodgeball Mobile location-based service, owned by Google Unknown[17] Open DontStayIn Clubbing (primarily UK) 235,000+[18] Open Doostang Careers 173,000[19] Invite-only eCRUSH Teens 4,400,000[20] Open Experience Project Life experiences Unknown Open Started for colleges, then high schools, and now everyone. 48,000,000[21] Open Faceparty British teens and young adults 5,900,000[22] Open to people 16 and older. Flickr Photo sharing 4,000,000[23] Open (Yahoo! login) Flirtomatic Flirting/Dating 265,000[24] Open to people 18 and older. Fotki Photo sharing 1,000,000[25] Open Fotolog Photoblogging 9,000,000[26] Open Friends Reunited School, college, work, sport and streets 19,000,000[27] Open Friendster General 50,000,000[28] Open Frühstückstreff General 11,600[29] Open Gaia Online Anime and games 9,300,000[30] Open Gather Article, picture, and video sharing, as well as group discussions 360,000[31] Open Geni.com Families, genealogy 100,000[32] Open Graduates.com School, college, and work 650,000[33] Open Grono.net Poland 1,350,000[34] Invite-only GuildCafe Online games Unknown Open hi5 General 50,000,000[35] Open Hospitality Club Hospitality 328,629[36] Open Hyves General Dutch social networking website 3,266,581[37] Open imeem Music, Video, Photos, Blogs 16,000,000[38] Open IRC-Galleria Finland 400,000[39] Open iWiW Hungary 2,600,000[40] Invite-only Jaiku General Unknown[41] Open Joga Bonito Football (soccer) Unknown Open Last.fm Music 15,000,000[42] Open LibraryThing Book lovers 214,425[43] Open Business 15,000,000[44] Open LiveJournal Blogging. Popular in Russia. 12,900,000[45] Open (OpenID) LunarStorm Sweden 1,200,000[46] Open MEETin General 72,000[47] Open Meetup.com General 2,000,000[48] Open MiGente.com Latinos 3,600,000[49] Open Mixi Japan 9,830,000[50] Invite-only MOG Music Unknown Open Multiply “Real world” relationships 5,000,000[51] Open MyChurch Christian Churches 70,306[52] Open My Opera Community General (blogs, photo albums, forums, groups, etc.) 1,001,798[53] Open MySpace General 206,304,468[54] Open myYearbook General 950,000[55] Open Netlog Formerly known as Facebox. 24,000,000[56] Open Nexopia Canada 1,158,531[57] Open Ning Social network creation Unknown Open OkCupid Dating Unknown Open orkut Owned by Google. Popular in Brazil and India. 67,962,551[58] Open (Google login) OUTeverywhere Gay Unknown Open Passado General 4,700,000[59] Open Piczo Teenagers, Canadians, photo sharing 10,000,000[60] Open Playahead Swedish teenagers 530,000[61] Open Playtxt Mobile social network, location, worldwide 70,000 Open ProfileHeaven British teens 100,000[62] Open Pownce Moblog for websites, files, and short updates Unknown Invite-only RateItAll General (consumer ratings) Unknown[63] Open Reunion.com Locating friends and family, keeping in touch 28,000,000[64] Open Ryze Business 250,000[65] Open Searchles Social search and networking Unknown[66] Open Sconex American high schools 500,000[67] Open Sermo Physicians 20,000[68] Open only to registered D.O.s and M.D.s in the U.S.A. sexi Japan (sexual networking site) 60,000[69] Invite-only Shelfari Books Unknown Open Skyrock Blog France, Belgium, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, New Caledonia, Senegal 3,800,000[70] Open Snooth Wine Unknown Open Soundpedia Music 3,500,000[71] Open Sportsvite Recreational sports 18,000[72] Open Studivz University students, mostly in the German-speaking countries 2,400,000[73] Open StumbleUpon Websurfing 3,200,000[74] Open Tagged.com General 30,000,000[75] Open TagWorld General (tagging) 1,850,692[76] Open TakingITGlobal Social action 145,000[77] Open The Student Center Teens and colleges 800,000[78] Open Threadless Custom T-shirts 364,474 Open TravBuddy.com Travel 760,000[79] Open Travellerspoint Travel 105,000[80] Open tribe.net General 602,876 [81] Open General Unknown[82] Open Vox Blogging Unknown Open WAYN Travel and lifestyle 8,000,000[83] Open to people 18 and older WebBiographies Genealogy and biography Unknown[84] WeeWorld General (cartoons) 1,700,000[85] open Windows Live Spaces Blogging (formerly MSN Spaces) 120,000,000[86] Open Woophy travel & photography, photo sharing website 20,000[87] Open Xanga Blogs and “metro” areas 40,000,000[88] Open Business 4,000,000[89] Open Yahoo! 360° Linked to Yahoo! IDs 4,700,000[90] Open to people 18 and older, (Yahoo! login) Yahoo! Mash Yahoo’s new SNS – Still in beta Unknown[91] invite only while in beta Zooomr Universal photo sharing Unknown[92] Open (OpenID)
Realize that this lis doesn’t even include other things that function like social networks, like De.licio.us,Technocrati, or Digg. If you are a hep cyber citizen your on all those , God forbid you leave your desk, oh wait I can twitter from my phone. I can face book while waiting for a red light, yeah I know I am not supposed to do it, but you do it too so pbbbtttt.
This at first didn’t seem like a problem until colleges and universities stared having classes teaching freshmen how to meet and interact with people real-time, in fact we live in a world interaction is a major. Not talking about computer interactions or anything digital, just interaction as a whole, something that the very old fashioned me takes for granted. Your in a situation you are going to interact, not unlike your in an ocean, you are going to get wet.
I sometimes getr so busy with online life that i don’t have time for the real one, you knoe the one I do all the online stuff to pay for. It becomes like the 80’s cokehead mantra, “I do blow to be better at work,to make more money, so I can afford more blow” In this case instead of Bolvian Marching Powder, its the tiny dance of 1’s and 0’s.
I had a similar thought while being lost in New York, “how many cities should a man know by heart?” To which my friend Scott answered as many as possible. A nice thought but at some point it gets ridiculous, me I have my home town:Minneapolis, St. Paul its necessary suburbs, small towns nearby like Duluth and Rochester, Siux Falls, Fargo, Madison, Milwaukee. The Chicago, New York, Los Angeles , San Diego, Seattle, London, then the million small towns that I seem to contiually have to be off to (Bismark anyone?).
I say enough with the social networking. how about anti social networks like hatebook? or heres a thought how about an old fashioned party? Have the whole world over…let say at your house though, mines too small.
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wait a minute… which one is the one where you get the angry Dutchmen to call????? That got my pulse racing.
Skype, though in truth we spent the day crank calling Italians, but thats not nearly as funny
How could you possibly leave out http://www.b4uparty.com which has so much more community spirit to offer?
I guess because I had never heard of it, the wealth of social network sites is bigger then Boca Raton.I can only squeeze in so many. But I will check it out, thanks!
Don’t know if you get the Bad Signal e-mails, but , Warren Ellis, described Facebook as “a shit interface used primarily for telling people you’re a mad bitey zombie pirate monkey.”
That’s why he’s the Internet Jesus.
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