There's a difference between having a social life on a site and having a social network. A network is mostly passive -- just keeping contact information. Having a social life is much more active. The big drawback to the <2.0 sites is that most of them encourage activity of some sort. ie, lj encourages comments and posts and reading
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I joined Linkedin, hopeful that it'll help the job front when the time comes that I need/want it.
Facebook? Nah. I've got enough friends, and I don't want my high school, college etc adventures out on the internet for all search engines to cache forever.
Twitter? Blah. If I wanted to know what my friends were doing 24/7, well, I don't. If they wanted to know what I was doing all day, it's none of their business.
And I love OSX's Addressbook. It holds all my contact data in an open format. I can back it up with a click. I can drag/drop to from it easily enough. And I can use things like Mac::Glue with it. And I can access it anytime with .Mac if I'm not around my OSX machines.
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ISCA was a "long time ago" in my mind. Fun system at the time!
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Facebook? Nah. I've got enough friends, and I don't want my high school, college etc adventures out on the internet for all search engines to cache forever.
Twitter? Blah. If I wanted to know what my friends were doing 24/7, well, I don't. If they wanted to know what I was doing all day, it's none of their business.
And I love OSX's Addressbook. It holds all my contact data in an open format. I can back it up with a click. I can drag/drop to from it easily enough. And I can use things like Mac::Glue with it. And I can access it anytime with .Mac if I'm not around my OSX machines.
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