I counted the social sites I can remember that I belong to and it was around 20 or so.
I really don’t see that I have benefited from MySpace, Bumpzee, Blog Catalog, Stumble or MyBlogLog, but then again perhaps I don’t use them correctly. I really don’t have the time to devote to all those social sites, so why in the world do I keep joining them? Why do you? Technorati has me stumped also at one point I had a lot of links, but they disappeared, go figure.

I know we expect to get traffic and if we are selling something maybe a purchase, but do we really expect to be friends with everyone that adds us and why do they add us? I always accept friendship request, but not sure what the purpose is and when people join your community what are you suppose to do with them. Is there some special thing I am suppose to be doing? Well, apparently I haven’t a clue.

I have been wondering if I am becoming anti social in my golden years or does the golden years start at 65? At any rate I consider the time I’ve been with Bill to be my golden years because they have been the best years of my life. I guess being social and active in communities helps you define how popular and successful you want to be with whatever you are trying to accomplish.

Many people say they blog for themselves and I’m not sure I understand that. Why put it online if you aren’t expecting to gain from it in some way, what’s the point, just keep a diary. I guess it could be therapeutic to post whatever you feel like and get things off your chest, but I tend to like the idea of making a couple dollars. It doesn’t have to be a fortune and since it is my blog I guess I can do as I please with in the law of course.

So I guess that means I can be sociable when I please and just enjoy the ride without feeling pressure to keep joining all these social sites because I think I might be missing something and it’s the thing to do to stay on top of current trends. Although I’m not sure why I would feel that way. I guess I just hate feeling left out and want to know what all the fuss is about and usually it turns out to be nothing.