YouTube MySpace & I’ll Facebook Yours

I just recently signed up to Facebook ... you won’t find much on it - now I’m there, I actually don’t know what to do with myself.

I mean, I say ‘yes’ to people I know who ask to be my friend and have popped a few pictures up for the world to see.

But now what? I mean, what’s so great about this peer-to-peer or social networking that has, as far as Google can tell, two hundred million people worldwide facebooking, My Spacing, You Tubing or Beboing every single month ... have I missed something?

To call it social networking is really pulling the wool over our eyes, because there’s not a great deal of socialising going on at all.

In the first 2 days, around 25 people miraculously appeared at the door of my Facebook page, asking to hang out ...

... now I know that Aaron has just been through Asia and takes great photos, I know that Peter has just had a little girl, that Fiona has been baking for the family, that Luke’s travelling through France in a motor home ... and I’ve spoken to none of them!

And, apparently, that’s one of the great things of it ... you can keep in touch with all your friends and fellow networkees simply by looking at their wall. They don’t even know you’ve stopped by!

Oh, and by the way, to all who have actually sent me a message on my Facebook ... I can see them, and as soon as I have to the time to work out how to actually respond, I will.

Otherwise I suggest that you try the tried and true, traditional methods of e-mail or text.

Tim Sisarich, Executive Director Focus on the Family NZ as heard on Scrubcutters , Newstalk ZB