Personal networking, nudge nudge, wink, wink

I just sent out a newsletter with links back to this blog, in my leader I mentioned the research I am doing into the Web2 interactive networking sites – these are called many things including personal networking, social networking, social communities etc.

I have been so immersed in this that I completely missed the fact that to many people this means an online dating and mating service – I even joked about getting mail from potential “Russian brides”. Just goes to show all the jokes about geeks kissing frogs are right.

It seriously never occured to me that some readers would think I was looking for dating and “swingers” sites – umm many thanks to my readers who recommmended their favorite sites in this field – I did find them very interesting and one day, perhaps, I will do some reseach into this area of social networking.

In fact when I started building websites I did a lot of research looking at the code and structure of porn sites – these use the latest developments, compresssion, image and caching techniques and anyone working on Internet sites can learn a lot from them (and I am not writing this with my tongue in my cheek) – now I am on this theme is seems I cannot write anything which is not ambiguous – “tongue in cheek” was written innocently.

For me, social networking is the use of Internet sites to bring people together to share and add information onto that site for the beneft of everybody – usually this is to share a common interest, music, humour and umm I suppose sex, but as I am interested in leisure, property and food – my research has been in these areas – but, “needs must when the devil drives” – “know what I mean ?”