Today, online networking promises more opportunity for advertising, marketing, branding, blogging, and staying connected to others than ever before.
With the Facebook craze, news and medium portals provide a "share on Facebook" link under news stories and articles, enabling even more people to receive the same information. In essence, we have become so intertwined that it's almost impossible to escape from each other. In fact, it's pretty safe to claim that unless you're living in complete exile, you cannot escape the force that is online networking.
In a given week, I probably receive about five emails from friends and/or colleagues that invite me to some new online social networking service. I delete all of them. Who really has time to Facebook, blog, Myspace, and Youtube regularly. And now another social networking tool? There's some more proof of how influential these medium portals have become: I used Facebook, blog, Myspace, and Youtube as verbs--and you most likely use them as verbs when you speak. "Oh I'll just Facebook him later and ask."
Anyway, I delete all those invites because sometimes it just gets too overwhelming to deal with yet another networking service. Today I got an invite to use Twitter, another online social place that allows you to create a brief profile, upload a photo, and update those on your list as to what you're doing. As if Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, and regular emails aren't enough to invite others into your life, Twitter also allows you to let people know what you're doing--like all the time.
I looked into it and there's not much you really have to do. Doesn't seem like it would take much time or commitment. I buckled. I signed up today.
Look for LornaLondon.
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