Rich Minx

Social networking online can be a great way to ‘meet’ new people and stay in touch with friends, while also promoting yourself and your business. The only annoying thing is having fill out and update your profile on so many different sites.

Facebook
Everyone’s talking ’bout Facebook. I love it. It’s got handy applets you can add to your profile, it searches your email contacts to add friends and shows you all the recent updates from your friends. It seems to know and share an awful lot of information, though…

MySpace
MySpace is still huge, but is clunky and slow-loading compared with Facebook. You also get lots of spammy ‘people’ wanting you to join their crappy network.

Bebo
Bebo is quite big in the UK and Europe especially. I’m on it but hardly ever check it. What’s so special about it?

Friendster
Oh please. Why not just scribble on some papyrus and wrap it round a pigeon’s leg?

MyBlogLog
MyBlogLog is pretty handy for blog promotion, referral traffic and to keep tabs on the lurkers who don’t comment. You can join blog communities, or it adds you automagically if it detects you’ve visited a certain site multiple times.

Digg
The Big Daddy of user-submitted content. I’ve stopped pushing my own posts now but still head over once a day for the top stories, and leave the odd comment on the silliest ones. Much of Digg is about who you know, being sarcastic and having fab geek posts, but it’s still worth checking out.

StumbleUpon
I enjoy surfing Stumble when bored and submitting articles results in some good ongoing visitor numbers, although it shortens my User Session Duration stats when people Stumble right on out of my site again. I like how I can narrow my surfing down to specific interests and keywords, and meet like-minded Stumblers who are generally less bratty than Diggers.

Technorati
Say no more. I’ve been checking my blog’s progress in Technorati’s rankings so much it’s ridiculous, and although I’ve been shooting up recently from the ViralTag and ViraLink trains, it’s resulted in almost 0 extra visits and I’d rather be linked to for articles people like.

What social networking sites do you use?

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