I joined a social networking site at CSW; my first real experience with one. I've known a lot of guys on My Space or Facebook, but even considering the experience at CSW (overall), it wasn't something that seemed to be that useful to me, personally.
It seems like one of those things where mileage varies for people. As for the links, BP is talking about, that is all about the geek-term 'monetizing', and I don't know about it, I 'get' the concept, but in considering my own use of the internets over the years, I doubt I have ever clicked through on a link to buy something, so as a business model, I am not sure it actually works as well as some people say. But then again, maybe it is just me.
I did have a Myspace account (well I had signed up for one probably to read someone else's or something -some years ago). I logged back into it recently (for the purpose of deletion - it never occurred to me that I could drop it). And I had something like 10-14 messages sent to me by "women that wanted to meet me" or whatever. Which is sort of along the lines of what I find in my Gmail Spam folder... the usual, ED problems solved and all that. Gosh, I could have been saved.
Ah well, I find enough to do in the net without it.
Capt. Stephen Trauth
XVI Corps 1st Division 6th Brigade (divisional artillery)
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