I've read several articles recently predicting that Facebook will start to shrink as the novelty wears off and people seek more specialist social networking sites. My favourite is www.librarything.com where you list the books you own, write reviews and connect with others who enjoy the same books as you. Another much more general site is www.experienceproject.com. On this site you can write about specific experiences and join groups that relate to your beliefs, nationality, or just something about you like "I am single" or "I am an uncle". I love the way this site covers absolutely anybody, but quickly defines people. By joining 10 or 15 groups you can identify yourself and sift through potentially millions of people to connect with "your sort of people", whoever they might be. Another attraction of experience project is the interesting stories. Like a compilation of all the best bits of many biographies. As with most things in life it's the obscurities that are the most interesting. I've only found these websites by spending hours sifting through rubbish. Remember when they used to publish guidebooks to the internet that listed interesting websites? These books seem to clog up the charity shops now. They already appear so dated. Some of them mention social networking as the latest thing!
Idea of the week: There are magazines devoted to computer games, but what about a magazine devoted to social networking? Surely more people use social networks than play computer games?
