Social Networking

I work in the technology field, and social networking is a very hot topic. The impact to marketing, advertising and the sales of new products. The introduction of user driven content within gaming systems and social site. So, I have been doing some research...

Have you signed up for Facebook yet? They have a unique way of connecting you with people from your past by suggesting that you connect with people from your graduating class at high school and college. I signed up the other day, and immediately started growing my friends list (23 in the first day).

As you start to connect with friends, you can (usually) see their list of friends. After browsing through some of my friends, friends lists (not sure how to say that correctly - friends lists of my friends, friends of friends list - well NEway, back to the story). Another wave of friends were added... omg, people I haven't talked to in over 10-15 years ... crazy!!!

Probably the kewlest (just get used to me spelling it this way) and most interesting features of facebook, is that you can forward your messages to you phone as text messages. I am a huge texter (over 4,000 texts a month - and that is before facebook); and so this naturally appealed to me. Facebook sends new friend requests, and I can just reply "add" and it automatically takes care of adding the person to my friends list. I can reply to wall posts, personal messages, and much more. It is really awesome! (great job facebook)

Soooo, one interesting dilemma! My life is basically broken into three different major parts - there were the early years (childhood through high school), the past business years (post high-school to present business) and the now business years (current business). Well, I know different people and different types of people from each of these, shall we call them era's; and these worlds are colliding. Beth appropriately termed this a merging of the Stephen time continuum (heh heh).

Now this wouldn't be such an issue, if it weren't for the fact that these worlds are quite diverse, from Christianity to agnosticism, from professional to hookah(ing)...

I am not quite sure yet what the effect of merging these worlds (err... time continuums) will have; but I can't help but have a bit of an uneasy feeling about it...

Day 2 and 47 friends later, I am anxiously awaiting the mushroom cloud...

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