I am actually getting tired of people inviting me to join this social network or that social network. I am already a member of more social networks than I can manage - from Flickr to Facebook and so are most of my friends. Yet every now and again someone invites me to join yet another social network.

What is the fascination behind social networks? I mean, (ranting at no-one in particular and everyone in general) I already connected to you through Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. You have my address, email, phone number and even updates on what I am doing daily via Twitter. So why do you think you need to connect to me via another medium? Enough with keeping tabs on me already.

Now don’t get me wrong, I do not have anything against social networking, I just don’t see why you need to be connected to people via every social network you can find. Has it become a thing of pride, or something to brag about? You hear people say, I have 10,000 friends on Myspace or 500 friends on Facebook. I bet you you do not talk to all your 500 Facebook friends, or can even remember half of the people you are connected to on Myspace? So what is the point. The whole point of social networking is to connect to people you are actually interested in either professionally or personally, not just every Tom, Dick and Harry.

What started this little tirade was an invitation to join Plurk, which as far as I can see is just another twitter. Since i am already on twitter, I do not see any reason to become a “plurker”. Well unless they come up with some features that blows twitter out of the water, they will just another twitter to me.

On second thoughts, I do like the look of the advance plurks and the fact that you can share media with it, so inspite of the tirade, if you find me inviting you to follow me on plurk, let’s pretend the first few paragraphs do not exist .

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