You know pretty much everyone is on the internet nowadays - you are reading this page after all! But it’s grown into such a huge mass of useless information that just finding the people out there that you know from the millions of others is quite a daunting task. But there are a few ways and one by one people seem to twist me into signing up for all these sites so to promote healthier networking, I’m going to shamelessly plug them all here in the hope that those who aren’t members can sign up and find me!
Of course everyone knows the old timers like schoolfriends.com.au, after all, it’s been around for years. And most people have heard of, or are likely members of, MySpace.com. But I bet most of you haven’t used Facebook.com before. The underlying principle behind all these sites is to be able to find your friends and network with them so that as they move on in their lives, you can keep track of them. A novel concept, and one I didn’t really believe in until recently when I managed to discover people I haven’t seen since school and have now arranged to catch up with. The possibilities are really quite astounding.
Of course you have to get over the “my personal information is out there on the web” phobia, but really most sites take this into account nowadays. After all, the Internet only knows what you give it (unless of course you spider every known document on every known media on the planet aka Google).
So get out there and find your long lost friends!
September 7th, 2006 at 16:29
It’s interesting to see Facebook’s sudden rise of interest in Australia - it’s been in existance since early 2004 and has received heavy use in especially the US since it’s inception.
However, prior to 2006, there seemed to be a higher population of Australian’s on Hi-5 and Friendster.
Personally I have accounts on about five of these things now, and I hope Facebook with its numerically superior(I think - no stats to back it up, I’m afraid) userbase kills some of the others — either that or Google’s Orkut makes a silent rise to the top. Presently I don’t see facebook as anything more than what friendster was in 2005, and hi-5 was in the year before it.
It also seems to be the student-preferred way of alumini management - compare the interfaces offered by Potentiality Pty. Ltd. (aka internet-alumini : provider for oha, queen’s college and others) et al with their stark address book like format to the media content rich experience offered by those such as facebook.
We will see!
September 7th, 2006 at 16:42
Bah Potentiality.. don’t get me started. I’m already working on a new OH site that is completely in-house.
And if you have about 5 accounts now, why on earth can’t I find you on any of them??
September 7th, 2006 at 16:45
Friendster should be there, as should hi-5 and orkut, using Tom Fifield and my gmail account.
Schoolfriends I don’t believe I’ve added haileybury yet, and it might be using my linuxmail address.
I am aware of a 5th one, but I don’t know which site it was on anymore - that’s probably also on linuxmail.
I don’t have a facebook account of my own yet.
September 7th, 2006 at 16:46
I think #5 might be reunion.com, but I can’t seem to login *sigh*
September 7th, 2006 at 16:47
Good to hear you’re working on a new site. We’re might be doing the same for Queen’s, right after we redesign our main site.
September 7th, 2006 at 17:11
Hey can you invite me into orkut?
September 10th, 2006 at 15:32
That’s been done - it should have hit your jamesx address by now ( though I think it will ask you to tie some email address to a google account on registration).
Anyone else need an invitation?