Social Networking Gone Overboard

[brad jones]

I've posted my newest Codeguru blog entry at http://blog.codeguru.com/blog/2009/0...e-overboa.html. The title of this entry is Social Networking Goes OverBoard.

It is now the newest craze to have social links on web pages. Be it links to Digg, Reddit, Dzone, or others. In this blog post, I talk about this topic briefly and then present icons for 90 social networking/bookmarking sites. If you think you are a web expert, then take a look and see how many of the sites you can name by just lookign at their icons.

If you can name half of them without cheating, then we will be impressed!

Brad!

[Hack]

Nice article.

Name 50? I couldn't even name 5 (actually, I didn't recognize any of the icons.)

[brad jones]

Nice article.

Name 50? I couldn't even name 5 (actually, I didn't recognize any of the icons.)

We'll give you Google Bookmarks if you recognized the Google icon

Brad!

[mendhak]

29. But I only know them because they annoy me.

What surprises me the most is how some people will have a blog entry or an article about the most pointless thing in the world and still have the audacity to add a slashdot icon there. These are completely non-nerdy articles and they're still expecting someone to submit it.

Then again, slashdot has fallen so much in content quality in the past few months that at this point, anything is possible.

[brad jones]

What surprises me the most is how some people will have a blog entry or an article about the most pointless thing in the world and still have the audacity to add a slashdot icon there. These are completely non-nerdy articles and they're still expecting someone to submit it.

29 isn't bad .

As to adding the icons - often that is automatic on a blog. I don't add them to my blog -they are simply a part of the page set up.

So you can't really blame links on pointless posts.... at least not completely.

Brad!

[KTech]

The problem I have with social networking is that all these people from your past want to be your friend but there is a reason I don't talk to them anymore and didn't keep in touch with them in the first place.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I recognized as many as I had expected to: 0.000

[mendhak]

29 isn't bad .

As to adding the icons - often that is automatic on a blog. I don't add them to my blog -they are simply a part of the page set up.

So you can't really blame links on pointless posts.... at least not completely.

Brad!

That's fine, I mean blogs about... nothing scientific at all. I've even seen it on shopping websites. Clothing websites.

Agreed with KTech, if I had wanted to keep in touch with them, I would have.

Surprised at ShaggyHiker. Now I feel bad about recognizing 29.

[mendhak]

What about you, Brad? How many of those did you know? (Please make sure your answer is greater than 29)

[brad jones]

Based on icons alone.... I would not have gotten 29.

I guess I'm not the geek everyone would expect....

Brad!

[RobDog888]

I got 6 and thats twice as many as I thought I'd get lol

[techgnome]

Amen to that!

Brad - no it means you have a real social life... one that exists outside the confinements of the internet & computers.

-tg

[techgnome]

I give my self .5 .... I thought it was "Ask.com" ... mainly because it's in the icon... And I recognized that only because it's the search I use the most - but it's "AskJeeves" .... so I get .5 for that. And yet it's still more than I expected.

-tg

[Davadvice]

hi iv'e not read the article yet.

TBH i don't really know what you are talking about. i see these wee things at the botom of some news pages but have never tried to find out what they are.

I have a Bebo but that is just so i can see pics from my family members. I have no images or notes on the site. is bebo what you would call a blog ?

my life aint worth writing about in the sense that i tell the people who mater to me what i've been doing i don't want every one and their brother to know as it would not be relevant to them if i did write it up.

as for the icons at the botom of the pages (Some adult sites have them too) i could not begin to id them.

no intrest in this. i beleive this will be like chat, a passing phase.

david

[abhijit]

I came close to 2, but found that I missed.

A - Ask turned out to be Ask Jeeves.

G - Google turned out to be Google Bookmarks.

[oceanebelle]

Now I feel bad about recognizing 29.

That is indeed sad.

I could only recognize google. :|

[Atheist]

I would've missed Google if I hadnt read the replies here first! My results are: 1 recognized icon!

[DeanMc]

I like read and writing to blogs but to be honest I never use those sites to search, I just use good old google!

[brad jones]

I give my self .5 .... I thought it was "Ask.com" ... mainly because it's in the icon... And I recognized that only because it's the search I use the most - but it's "AskJeeves" .... so I get .5 for that. And yet it's still more than I expected.

-tg

Ask and AskJeeves are related so you get a whole point.

Brad!

[brad jones]

I like read and writing to blogs but to be honest I never use those sites to search, I just use good old google!

It is not just search. It is also alternative ways to get news and information as well as to share. In many ways, a lot of these things compete with forums like this. Of course, we all like forums the best

Brad!
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Me on FaceBook
etc.

[JuggaloBrotha]

Amen to that!

Brad - no it means you have a real social life... one that exists outside the confinements of the internet & computers.

-tg

Something like that exists for us techies?