Re: Really OT: Social Networking - Why?

Hi!

Can someone please explain to me the big attraction behind social
networking?

For me at least, it has been fun, and an extension (of sorts) to the other
Internet and World Wid Web related things I do. I don't pretend that I'm
anything I'm not (as you've noticed, I post to Usenet with my given name,
and finding out approximately where I am would not be impossible) or try to
make up some kind of fantasy. I'm not as open when I do social networking on
the purpose built sites, primarily beacuse I have noticed a *lot* of weirdos
out there...but what I talk about and do is not an act.

(Yes, I realize that posting to Usenet where you don't know the entirety of
your audience and being fairly open about things does not make sense
compared to social networking sites where you have a lot more control about
who can see what, and you might even have an idea as to who is seeing what.
So be it.)

As to other reasons why, I don't really know. I suspect that some of comes
about because we *are* social creatures for the most part. Also, to a
certain extent, there's only so much I can do to entertain myself before I
want to see what someone else might be doing. (This also explains a great
deal about the success of television, movies and news media...)

Oh, and it gives me the opportunity to do something I haven't done for a few
years now.

I just don't 'get it'. Is it because I'm old enough to be a...

Daddy?

I don't think that age has much--if anything--to do with it. Not everyone is
equally sociable, and not everyone is sociable in every social situation.
Where I would be at ease and comfortable talking to people, others might not
be. It's easily demonstrated that you have all different age groups--even if
the balance is tilted toward the younger crowd--engaged in social
networking.

William


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