Social Networking
December 30, 2007
Lately, there are so many social networking sites emerging (and sadly fading away). I visited myspace in a long time and noticed how it was “dead.” No “friends” of mine use the service anymore… (despite the fact that they upgraded many parts of the service) In blogging, xanga was my first ever blog, but apparantly no one uses it anymore so it seemed useless to update it often, yet I still do. It’s more like a public posting site for Grace to read. Yet I decided to keep both xanga and myspace updated.
In the new emerging networking sites, the main one seems to be Facebook. I liked the fact that there is finally a networking site that is US based used by all my “western friends” that offers unlimited photo space. However, with the much poking (and one should poke them back for proper manners) and different applications that seems to be flooded including useless “zombie” applications, it is annoying the heck out of me.
The one that I’m most loyal to, it seems, is Cyworld.
Cyworld, for those who don’t know is:
a South Korean web community site operated by SK Communications a subsidiary of SK Telecom. Literally translated, “Cy” can mean “cyber”, but is also a play on the Korean word for relationship, so it could also mean “relationship.” It pioneered the concept of personal virtual space in 1999. (wikipedia)
They also launched a US version which is: us.cyworld.com
Cyworld is used by a lot of Koreans to post pictures, videos, blogs/diary, and leave comments like the wall function in Facebook. For the few possible Korean readers, I hope you become my “ilchon” in my cyworld. The address (if anyone is curious -_-) is cyworld.com/nackchoon.
Anyway, what I try to say here is that I hope there is a worldwide social networking site that everyone uses so that I can communicate and keep contact with everyone that I’ve met in my life…
It would be great if there was one space that you could update and it would send out your updates to all of the social network sites you were a member of, that way you’d visit one place, make a lot of work a lot less, and still keep up to date with all the people you knew on all their most comfortable networks. Dude, we would have been such good friends if I stayed around there, heh. This is just what I was getting into a month or two ago!
Oh, Utopia!!!!!! LOL
Heh yea, I think I’d rather there be all kinds of different places though, but with one central place to update them all from. But yea… we weren’t cold at all when I was there, just not too close. The group we were both friends with was so big I guess we had our own closer friends.