An "old Dude's" take on MySpace November 21, 2007
Posted by Mark Blei in : Uncategorized , trackbackBy ERIC DEGGANS
c.2007 St. Petersburg Times
The younger generation may depend on Web socializing, but older ones learn: It’s just fun.
When I log onto MySpace, I feel like a king.
Thanks to my diligent efforts and the kind of networking only a weekend musician can indulge a bustling band of 1,132 friends waits for me. Everyone from old college buddies to local bandmates and distant players I will never meet forms my network.
The story is the same on Facebook, where I’ve assembled more than 300 friends, including pundit/blogger Arianna Huffington, comic actor Jeff Garlin, my editor here at the St. Petersburg Times and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. At LinkedIn, my 243 professional connections include folks from every newspaper where I’ve worked.
In these worlds, I’m a monarch of social networking, connected to a vast line of friends, acquaintances and stone cold strangers. As everyone from TV ratings company Nielsen Media Research to pop singer Kylie Minogue debuts their own social networking sites, opportunities for such connections will only increase.
But as I consider these sprawling relationships, I’m struck by one thing: I have no idea what to do with them.
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