And may I add my two cents about blog directories? A person wants to promote their blog, but most of the directories require a login and password. WFT? Everyone just wants to create the logins so they can track behaviour.

Grrr…

I’ve also avoided most of the invitations to the social networks over the years because I honestly don’t care – it’s so often the same people I’m already connected with joining a new network to be amongst the first and therefore, “in”. I caved and joined Facebook only to find that all the excitement and addiction others have found there hasn’t existed for me and likely never will. I wasn’t particularly close to anyone I ever went to school with, but regardless, there’s always the curiousity of what are these people up to. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) my classmates are not involved in these sorts of things so there was no one to locate. (And all the stupid widgets/groups are just the most pointless and annoying things ever.) I too have deactivated my account and wished I had paid more attention when I signed up because, unfortunately, I did enter a bunch of info all of which I’ve now stripped from my account before deactivating.

Anyway, sorry for the rant. A friend (okay more of an acquaintance) and his business partner wrote a tool called Explode which allows you to link up your friends across various networks and have those comment conversations without having to join a new network and participate there since you can use your existing logon for one of the sites or an OpenID. Maybe it will be worthwhile for you and you can drop some of those extraneous networking sites… http://ex.plode.us/