In the future, you will find your life partner on google. Searches like
male, 27, 5’10, ten miles of EC1, genuine, chinese food, leather
will actually find you a soulmate, rather than the soc.culture.bulgaria frequently asked questions list.* Until that point, we have social networking sites, which range from the incompetent (can anyone use LinkedIn?) to the ridiculous (MySpace, natch). So, you spend half an hour filling in details on yet another site, which looks increasing like a psychoanalysis session…
Q: What did you learn from past relationships?
A: That there’s no good answers to some questions.(My mate challenges you to come up with a better answer.)
So, you’ve now filled in your details on LinkedIn (if you can), Orkut (or is it Ortak?), MySpace (because all the kidz are doing it), Friendster, TheTribe and all of a sudden you realise: you have more social networking sites than friends. My mate reckons you’re more likely to make real friends playing video games on your Xbox than browsing MySpace
Having written this, it was rather disappointing to discover someone else had already said it better. If you want an intelligent article on the subject, you could do worse than reading Autistic Social Software.
*My mate assures you that this is really what happens. He was also curious to find out that there were in fact questions asked frequently about bulgarian society and culture.
My Mate Says 