{"id":158,"date":"2006-10-18T10:18:19","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T17:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/archives\/2006\/10\/18\/social-networking-musings\/"},"modified":"2006-10-18T10:18:19","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T17:18:19","slug":"social-networking-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2006\/10\/social-networking-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Networking Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems social net\u00adwork sites are con\u00adsidered the heart of the inter\u00adnet these days, at least if you\u2019re under 25 (which I\u2019m not); real-life net\u00adworks still exist of course, espe\u00adcially if you have chil\u00addren (see Tim\u2019s post on Real Social Net\u00adworks<\/em><\/a>). I\u2019m old-fash\u00adioned in that I still use email to keep in touch with people and not exclus\u00adively instant mes\u00adsaging (for one thing, lots of the people I email are in timezones 7 or more hours away) and I have enough to do without writ\u00ading in strangers\u2019 scrap\u00adbooks (one big reas\u00adon I deleted my Orkut account was because I nev\u00ader went there except to delete what people had writ\u00adten in my scrap\u00adbook and even\u00adtu\u00adally I could\u00adn\u2019t be bothered any more). For me the big value of a social net\u00adwork\u00ading site is being able to keep in touch with people I used to work with (in a com\u00adpany, on some stand\u00adards com\u00admit\u00adtee, or through the XML<\/span> con\u00adfer\u00adence). Giv\u00aden that people in the tech industry move jobs and email addresses with alac\u00adrity, I\u2019ve decided to use Linked\u00adIn as a large self-updat\u00ading address book. This is maybe not the major reas\u00adon that the site exists, but it\u2019s use\u00adful for that. So as I have time I\u2019m search\u00ading for names of people I know and send\u00ading out invites to \u201ccon\u00adnect\u201d while I still have their email addresses (I\u2019ve already lost touch with lots of people from DOM<\/span> WG<\/span> days, for example); for\u00adtu\u00adnately this pro\u00adcess can be inter\u00adrup\u00adted when the baby wakes up and demands attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems social net\u00adwork sites are con\u00adsidered the heart of the inter\u00adnet these days, at least if you\u2019re under 25 (which I\u2019m not); real-life net\u00adworks still exist of course, espe\u00adcially if you have chil\u00addren (see Tim\u2019s post on Real Social Net\u00adworks). I\u2019m old-fash\u00adioned in that I still use email to keep in touch with people \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cSocial Net\u00adwork\u00ading Musings\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}