SoCial-Networking...

Finding people in this planet nowadays is more easy than putting butter in a piece of bread. Long lost friends, colleagues, even family are easily find through social sites where everyone connects with everyone. Sincerely, the best invention since the world wide web. People I thought would never see again or even recognize me, have found me through such sites. Since the boom of the social-networking sites raised, trust me, I've been using them. Starting by the famous Myspace, followed by a reformed Facebook and ending (for now) in the text message alike site, Twitter.

I find very interesting how this kind of sites become really popular. Profiles are a mirror of yourself where people that know you or want to know you, can see who you are. I use 3 of the most popular social-networking sites: Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter. I started by using Myspace. I loved how i could put music and pictures of the artists i like. When it became really popular, I started to find people i went to school with back in kinder-garden and throughout my school years. One day, my cousin who lived in New York when I was still living in Puerto Rico, talked to me about a cool new site better than Myspace, more for older people. I started using Facebook even though it was kind of confusing, but i enjoyed how easy was to communicate with people, better than waiting to leave comments in Myspace. I've used both since and I love them.

My career field has always been the entertainment. Anything from music to movies and the artists I need to know. I've followed many blogs from entertainment followers including Perez Hilton's. His celebrity page is filled with up to date news in the industry with his comments. Several days I started to notice that many artists were posting personal stuff on a site called Twitter. Being this my field of interest, i decided to check it out and see what it was. I found more interesting yet the fact that is just answering one simple question "What are you doing?" in form of a text message. Now I've added a new site to my list of favorite social-networking sites.

I usually spend more than 4 hours a day on the social-networking sites, checking up with my friends, figuring out how to put my profile together and watching my artists, in between others. A week easily can be 15 hours of time checking up my pages. Actually is very valuable for me this pages, I think I've become addicted to look at my pages, knowing what everyone else is doing. Each site has a particular use for me. Myspace is for my younger friends back in P.R., Facebook is more of a College/Workers/older person kind of site, and Twitter is more for the entertainment issues on the go. If they put a fee for accessing the sites I don't think I would keep using the services just because I know my friends wont be using the sites, so what's the point on having a social-networking site without the people? I mean, I love the sites but is not that I cant live without them, I know there is always going to be new and free ways to contact with people.