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Ha, I'm a social network whore. :)

I don't really have time for any of it. But, I work on my computer all day, so I multi-task pretty well. It's not like I spend a lot of time on other social network sites anyway. MySpace and Facebook email me when something important happens, like someone requesting to be my friend, and I check my Facebook homepage once a day. I update twitter a few times a day, sometimes more, depending on my schedule, and I go on Virb once a week.

my.9rules is the only place I spend a significant amount of time on, and the only reason I do that is because the conversation is amazing and the people you meet here are of top quality. Yes, the people here are like cars...very good cars. :)

Yeah I'm not a member of any. I stoically refuse and just keep everything that one might put on there on my site instead.

I wouldn't say I don't have enough time, I just think the medium of starting profiles everywhere so people can be your "friends" for the sake of a number is a waste of time and slightly demeaning to your real life friends.

*raises hand*

While I don't participate in many other social networking sites (9Rules is sort of like a social networking sites, at least witht he my.9r stuff, right?), I still make time to create a precense there. I find that it helps in a number of ways, including having ways in which clients can find you or see a more human side of you in business, giving old aacquaintances a place to find you and realize that you still exist (thinking myspace, facebook, and even linkedin here), and in the process build your network with mostly current, but sometimes even new people that for some reason seek you out, allowing them to find you in ways other than your blog ('cause lett's face it: technorati and google are NOT social networking sites), which can then be leveraged for things as simple as wanting to make a new friend in real life or as complex as finding a doctor and getting recommendations from people who have been there/done that. Also, these make for great advertising tools, even if you're just advertising to a select group of "friends".

While I seem to have a bit more "free" time than you (that's a lie: time isn't free), I don't hang out all day, every day on social sites. Still, merely my precense there offers me advatages in the social networking arena, provided I try to leverage it out with real life (the web only stretches so far).

Sadly, the only reason I signed up for Facebook and MySpace are to keep in touch with my real life friends and also my family. But I mentioned in another thread, that the reason I keep them now is for the group features. I live in a small town, and finding people that I can connect with on certain levels is impossible here. I'm talking about me being trans here. I'm probably not the only one here that's trans, but trying to find someone is like finding the holy grail. It's not going to happen anytime soon. So I have to use other means of connecting with these people. So I go where they are. And there are a lot of them on MySpace and Facebook.

Josh, that is a really good explanation for how social networking sites can work beautifully -- and not one I'd ever considered.

I don't participate in them for the obvious reasons -- I work a lot, I'm raising three children, writing fiction, a blog, and there are so many things I want to read before I leave this world. Also, my community is local and large and face to face. Anyway, I can't imagine taking on a single new thing -- in fact, I'm trying to figure out what in my life might be optional so I can get rid of it.

Indeedy--same applies to me as far as real life friends. Not family, though. The only reason I haven't shut down my MySpace (and I still might) is because all my college buddies are on there, and it's actually the only way I keep in touch with some...

I work two jobs, and live online. Mainly because I'm a bigger fan of the internet than I am of most people. A shortcoming of my own no doubt. But I like machines. When they break I can fix then, when people break, I can't. Despite how much I try...

Social networks are a way for me to keep up with people I know and care about. I'm horrible on the telephone and have using it, so for those not within short driving distance, I can stay up with them.

A contrived way to have friendships sometimes, but it's better than losing them entirely.

I'm in the same boat as estarla, people from college and my overseas assignments are the only reasons that I stay on MySpace. I'd like to be able to get rid of it, but then keeping up would be too big a hassle.

I think I may have signed up for one or two at some point in time, but nope. I use none.

I don't use social networks to keep up with my friends. They might create a profile, upload pics or something and I'll view them (like a central hub for all to see if they don't have a website) but I don't interact with them via the network. We don't link to each other.

I told them I have a web site, read it. Email, send one. Skype, call me. If they are my friends (not someone I know) call me. Once someone becomes my friend we take it offline and only interact online when necessary. Occasionally they'll comment on something I said on my blog but they are more likely to talk to me about it.

With my9r I did something unprecedented: I blended my online (work) and offline (personal) life. It's like a new pair of shoes, I'm still testing the waters but it feels foreign to me.

I got dragged into the whole social networking shebang right after highschool so I could keep track of my friends more easily.

Unforunately, social networks are something like a plant, if you leave it alone for too long, it starts griping at you and doesn't perform as expected (wait, maybe that's just computers in general...).

So in the end, I just had to give it up. The payoff was never really that good (I mean, come on, cell phones, anyone?) But yeah, the time started becoming a factor as college rolled in and took more and more of that precious commodity. Like Tyme said, I have a website, email, skype, cell phone, practically every means of contacting me BESIDES a social network. I haven't fallen off the technological face of the earth just yet...

haha yeah, 9rN and my.9r ARE social networking.

We're just cooler than them.

I hate checking MySpace and Facebook because it's like pulling teeth. MySpace's administrative interface is terrible so it's not a pleasant experience, and coupled with that the spam on MySpace is insane.

I have fallen. Been a member of Facebook for about a week.

It's not all as bad as I feared although all the new applications are making it a bit washy. It has it's purposes for keeping in touch with people and remembering birthdays. The rest is fluff.

I put everything on my blog, gallery & wiki rather than using social sites. Every time I look at the various social networking sites I leave with the impression that they were designed for and cater to people who are not capable of running their own linux/bsd server at home ;)

Mary

I have signed up on a few but never returned, I'm just not enough of a hepp c at to fit in anywhere but here which is already filled with like minded long haired leaping gnomes.

I'm not a member of any of it. I'm just barely keeping up with everything I want to do as it is, and don't really have the time, or the inclination, to add that in. 9Rules is my social networking.

I don't use social networks to keep up with my friends. We use email, the phone, send photos via email attachments. I might visit a website to view photos, or view flickr to see photos, but that is about it. I have no interest in social networks.