Thing 19 - Other Social Networks

WebJunction has grown leaps and bounds since the last time I visited. Back then it was just a skeleton of a social network; right now it is overwhelming in variety and professional offerings. I found the 31 things to do with Flicker in your library and may actually implement one of those; watched a couple of videos about the new spaces in libraries. I was disappointed that there is little for high school media specialists, though. I guess I need to start a thread.
A while back somebody invited me to register at https://www.linkedin.com/, but, honestly, I am having a hard time keeping up with Facebook alone, so I am not signing up for anything else. At some point some of this clutter will disappear and it will hopefully be easier to keep up.
Social networks are what bulletin boards used to be when the web first started. At the time I belonged to a few groups (now Google bought out the archives and calls them groups) and my posts are still out there in cyberspace someplace. So I am going to decline the offer to join any of the new social groups, mostly because having to GO to the site is much less convenient than having the messages delivered to my mailbox. Yes, I could turn the feeds on, but then my already cluttered mailbox will be impossible to read.
I have bookmarked the TeacherLibrarian Ning. I feel that, like a lot of these social experiments, these will be swallowed by groups in Facebook or MySpace since these sites get a lot more traffic. But it will be interesting to go back in a month or so, just to see if things have changed.
I think Jim Louderback sums up my opinion of these networks :-)