I finally decided to join a social network - I chose Facebook. It has a mainly North American focus and population. I have been on Friends Reunited for a while - but not as a paid up member. This is a UK-based site and has much better representation for schools, organisations and employers than Facebook. Though they are different. What can I say about Facebook? It is different to Friends Reunited. I like the ability to add stuff to Facebook, I like that it is free, and that it seems less juvenile to other social networks. I've started to glue my stuff from other places into Facebook, such as this blog, my del.icio.us, etc.

I also joined Plaxo in order to get my cals and contacts syncing to google. Unfortunately, the google cal sync has been stopped as they've had problems. So, other than updating a few contacts with other plaxo members, plaxo is not that useful at the moment. I may leave if this does not change. In terms of leaving, well I haven't as yet. I still have a Yahoo account.

With the variety of sources and stores for information, the ability to bring them together is a vital component. I already sync my PDA, phone, Mac with plaxo, and look forward to getting google into this act.