Social Networking in 10 Minutes (or less)

I love, love, love social networking sites. I remember way back when I started online, there wasn’t a lot of interaction on most websites. There were chatrooms and forums, of course, those have been around forever, and if you liked a website you visited, you could leave a note in their guestbook, but for most websites, that was the primary interaction.

I still remember (and miss) the first social network I was involved with. It was a site called 6 Degrees, which was based on the theory that there are only 6 degrees of separation between any two people. Unfortunately, social networking was an idea ahead of it’s time, and 6 Degrees eventually faded into a memory.

Now, of course, social networks are all over the place, with more appearing daily (or so it seems). I still love the idea of social networking, and have to check out every one that I come across, but sometimes I feel a little lost when I’m staring at a new site and wondering how to really get the most out of it or even how to use it at all. After getting an e-mail from Mahalo yesterday informing me that someone was following me, and looking at my blank page on there, I wished that someone would come along and write some short, quick guides on how to use various social sites.

That’s when the little voice inside my head decided to chime in. “Why don’t you do it?”

I don’t always listen to that little voice, but it does have good ideas sometimes, and as busy as the holidays have been, I haven’t really written much of anything lately, so this would be something fun to get back into writing mode. So what the heck, I’ll do it.

So, I’ll start off by writing about the sites that I know and use. If there are ones that you’d like to see a guide to, post or send me the link and I’ll try to include it. If you know someone who would be a great author for a guide to a site, let me know.

So what do y’all think? Does it sound fun? Are there any social sites you’d suggest? Looking forward to hearing your input.