I hope I got my link in

Oh how I battle with myself at times about Facebooking! Most of the time I won’t even consider it but then there are the times when I get an invitation from a friend, someone I have not seen for sometime, and I want to start up Facebook. I then consider all of the things we would need to share on Facebook about one another and I quickly shut that idea down. Yes, I am cautious but I guess everyone has different life experiences and mine tells me not to do that. I decided to Google social networking sites to see what there was and found, surprise, “List of Social Networking Sites” at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites I did not think of Pinterest as social networking! Then I saw Flickr, and Blogger social communities on the Wiki list. There are sites there for deviantART, gays, politics, the jet set, religions and much more. I expected Facebook to be listed (and it is) with a couple of other sites! Oh, I see the LibraryThing there too. Of all of these I participate in Pinterest and watch what is in LibraryThing. Library Thing is about me watching everything. I like to read the reviews, see what is popular, and things like that. I use it to check out books people recommend or are talking about. I follow a couple of my friends and they follow me. As soon as I added “steampunk” as one of my pin up interests I had a few other people suddenly follow me! Interesting. Largely I am a watcher of the sites and do not attempt to connect with other people. I talk about things I see on both social networking sites but that is in person or on the phone. http://theblush.com/2012/05/09/pinsanity-pinterest/ After all, I would hate to get too obsessed with …