Quality Info…

BTW, when I went to verify iLike’s behavior–I checked it yesterday–FaceBook was down (again).

I still love them both

Sure, if I were a college or high school student this stuff would be a great use of my copious free time. Or I supposed if I was paid to blog about the “next great thing” I’d get all excited about these little time wasters.

As a real adult, with an actual job, family and responsibilities, my free time is extremely limited. I continually search for ways to spend less time distracted by the “shiny information” on the Internet, and more time having real life (face-to-face) interaction with my actual family members, close friends and other organizations I give my time to.

I’m not saying there’s no place in life for diversion, or that social networking sites can’t help you find things you might not otherwise know (”e.g. “look at this band I might like that I’ve never heard of”, “there’s someone I haven’t talked to in years”, etc.). But get real, mostly it’s just digital crack or mental masturbation.

The endless reading of gossip blogs, updating your status field, finding new “friends” or just reading the stream of trivia about the people “connected” to you (whom you will likely never meet in real life) on a social networking site is not the path to a properly balanced life, imho.

We are experiencing somewhat of an interesting phenomenon..
Facebook started as a network for college students… so, naturally, the age groups were lower…

now, we have reached a point where everyone is joining… including our parents, and professional contacts…

obviously, this is good because it shows the popularity of the platform…

what I do propose is that facebook adds in functionality for you to be able to divide up your friends into groups: i.e. friends, family, business contacts, etc…

then you could have each group see only certain elements of your profile…

I’d be happy to hear what others think…

Aydin.

Hey Everyone, I’m also one of the TechCrunch interns. In the fall I’ll be a junior at Grand Valley State University (Grand Rapids, MI), majoring in business economics and marketing. Like Andrew I’m interested in innovation, startups and some economic issues. I also enjoy playing basketball, traveling, learning as much as possible and doing new things. Instead of thinking of the glass as being half full or half empty, I’m usually trying to figure out how I can get a bigger glass. In the near future I plan on working on a startup.

Hopefully I’ll get to meet many of you in the future.

http://apps.facebook.com/babypuncher/