Someone recently suggested that they “stalked” me across multiple web services and it got me to thinking which services I have actually signed up to and which I continue to use.  Between then and now, my cat died, a friend’s house burnt down and another friend had her PhD draft[1] torn to shreds, so I didn’t quite get to it.  It seems to have been A Bad Week (TM) after the high at the beginning with my sister’s graduation.

Below, I have listed most of the social networking sites I use or that are well known. Social networking websites are an interesting phenomena.  I find myself rather bemused at times, but do see their attractions.  I see myself as a peripheral participant in most of them, and sometimes that leads to a sense of voyeurism that is kind of weird.  I have a horror of being watched so perhaps it’s not surprising that I tend to stick to the sidelines when I do get involved.

I’ve broken it up into Things I don’t use, Things I do use and Other things I have used but don’t really keep up with. I think I got them all, but who knows where I’ve signed up in the past.

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1. actually, just the first sentence of it, but where do you go from there? [↩]