Social Networking 101

I have a facebook account that I use to keep in touch with friends, but I guess I never saw it as a "networking" site. I didn't think about it in that manner, but I guess that's how I got my car fixed (a friend of a friend fixes cars). That's how my roomate got back in touch with her now husband (a friend of hers was a friend of his). It's interesting to see the way that a networking site can really change the way that people do things.

Wow. How would my grandmother react to this. If I need a roomate, a job, a date, or a group of people to go to Alaska with me, all I need to do is post and suddenly the entire world knows what I need. She would say that more personal means make more meaningful interactions, but sometimes it pays to have a wider social network. This is really interesting.