{"id":315,"date":"2008-03-17T23:15:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T06:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/category\/mythoughts\/social-networking-is-driving-me-crazy"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:32","slug":"social-networking-is-driving-me-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/social-networking-is-driving-me-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Networking is driving me CRAZY!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/myspaceblog.gif\" alt=\"MySpace\" align=\"left\" \/>Ok, it started a couple of years ago with MySpace &#8211; which wasn&#8217;t too bad.  In fact, it was kind of cool that shortly after I signed up, I was getting emails from high school friends I hadn&#8217;t talked to in a while.  But recently I am overwhelmed with the number of new social networking sites available .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/linkedin.gif\" alt=\"Linked In\" align=\"right\" \/>LinkedIn popped up as a work related networking site where I can recommend my co-workers as well as get recommendations.  I liked that, since it allowed me to keep up with old colleagues &#8211; where they work now, what skill sets they have developed since I worked with them, etc.  I didn&#8217;t mind having to keep up with two networking sites, since they served different purposes &#8211; one was social, the other career minded.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/facebookdale.jpg\" alt=\"My Social Networking PIC\" align=\"right\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/facebook.jpg\" alt=\"FaceBook\" align=\"left\" \/>Then came facebook.  I ignored it for months and months, but finally succumbed to the peer-pressure.  Now I get emails regarding Oregon Trail and someone wrote on your &#8216;funwall&#8217;.  I didn&#8217;t even realize I had a funwall.  Then Plaxo&#8217;s Pulse joined the mix.  In my Pulse site, I was able to tell it about my facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace sites.  Wow &#8211; kind of like a one stop shop for all my social networking sites, only now my inbox is flooded with sites I can&#8217;t go to from work &#8211; and you guys are just networking away everyday adding pictures to each of your pages, updating your emails, contact information, which schools you went to &#8211; each of which trigger an email to my inbox that doesn&#8217;t tell me <em>what <\/em>you updated, just <em>that<\/em> you updated. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/plaxo.gif\" alt=\"Plaxo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pulse\" align=\"left\" \/>I have to actually log into the respective site to see your updates &#8211; and again, I can&#8217;t do that from work because I get the big &#8220;YOU CAN&#8217;T GO THERE FROM WORK AND WE HAVE REPORTED YOU TO YOUR BOSS, OUR BOSS, THE CEO, THE NETWORK NAZIS AND THE MOB&#8221; error message!<\/p>\n<p>If I get fired for checking out MySpace &#8211; I gonna hit you guys up to stay your YourSpace since I won&#8217;t be able to afford mine any more&#8230; watch for that update on facebook!  I gotta go, I just got an email from LinkedIN&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, it started a couple of years ago with MySpace &#8211; which wasn&#8217;t too bad. In fact, it was kind of cool that shortly after I signed up, I was getting emails from high school friends I hadn&#8217;t talked to in a while. 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