September 19, 2006
Chat Rooms and Social Networking
Written by: Juanchito
I use to live in chat rooms. Now I pretty much live in social networking. No I haven’t gotten into myspace or facebook, but social networking in the blogosphere has been quite entertaining for me.
Also, since I’m a tech addict I’ve loved to see the various social networking technologies develop.
Today I came across and simple, but nice innovation on chat rooms and social networking called Pictari.com They take a chatroom and make it so the chat users can create social networks. I think it’s a great idea. People love being able to chat and by tieing it to social networking it adds a new level to the relationship between those people chatting.
I will warn you that chat rooms can be completely addicting. They are great if you need to pass the time. Add in social networking to the chat room and you might as well just set aside time to participate everyday.
They can be addicting. I have a pet pieve or is it peeve ?
I like to talk and share my knowledge in chat rooms, discussion boards and social networks.
However, that knowledge is valuable, its known as content basically and more and more I’m becoming attuned to the concept that every word I write on a different web site is kind of like a gift of content that I’m providing ot the site.
I try and be very selective with how and when I gift my knowledge content, and even more so I try and recycle that raw idea into a cleaned up version of content on one of my own websites.
That content is going to be available on the net for many many years to come, possibly indefinitely on some websites, kind of like signals of TV shows and the 1936 Olympics broadcast into space waiting for Captain Kirk to find them in some modded up alien outworld.
I very much like some of these Web2.0 tools like Trailfire(my favorite) and coComment that allow me to keep up with my gifts, even republish or syndicate them in a feed. ( I have cocommented and created a trail on this postpage