Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.
Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.
In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.
Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other.
Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.
Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.
The original dream of Facebook Platform was to enable developers to build experiences that were social at their core, like Facebook Photos, without having to build their own standalone social network.
Wikis and social networking are just tools.
Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
Maybe we need to look upon technologies and social networks as things that come out of us, not things that lead us. We can be on top of these things instead of them bein' on top of us as human beings.