Social Networking

Hello all !!! Hope all is well !!! I have been so busy at church plus the accounting exam, on which i performed dismally that I am dropping the class, that i failed to post my blog on blogging.... On a side note, if you are an acctg major, my advise is do not take advanced acctg classes on summer unless that it is the only thing that will keep you occupied for summer...Geez!!! I lost 10 points which I now hope to makeup somehow by extra credits and hoping to fare well at the test...Tough week...Anyways, let's get to the matter of discourse, which is social networking. Social networking is really something new to me. I have browsed through Friendster since it is popular back home (in the Philippines) and I wanted to see whatever happened to old classmates and acquaintances back home. An associate of mine at work has sent me an email link to join LinkedIn so I decided to join with much trepidation since I do not want to be caught surfing the net for personal use. I filled up some basic information but never really completed my profile which means I was not really serious about doing it. Since I have read the assigned article in NYT as well as an article I read a few months ago, I am in the process of updating my profile since you never know when it may come in handy, especially in this uncertain times, at least economically speaking. I also joined Facebook, which in undisputably the most popular social networking site in the country. I used my email account with AOL and it automatically asked me whether I am to carry over my contacts, some of which I did carry over. It is a good thing that both facebook and linkedin makes it easy for people to join. The interface is simple and the service is free although you can upgrade at LinkedIn for a fee. The only qualms I have is that there are too many fields that needed to filled up but I guess that will help me find people who share common interests and also be found. The only question now is whether I will be able to keep up. The only way is I gotta get better in time mgmt and multi-tasking.