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I don’t get social bookmarking sites like de.lic.ious, Twitter, etc.
Facebook is sort of a necessary evil, but that’s all the socialising online for me.

In the good old days we visited our friends at home and had conversations about our interests over a cup of tea or a glass of wine. Now all they have to do is look at our bookmarks! What is left to talk about?

What’s even worse is that we can send little one-liners to those with a shorter attention span.

Actually give me the good old days of IRC when you logged on, chatted to strangers and friends all over the world. So what if you got the odd nutjob – at least once you logged off that was the end of it.

I liked the anonymity. You could be stupid and no one would know, unless you told them.

Now you have make sure you link to sites like Time Magazine, the New York Times and The Times – UK, so people don’t think you only surf E!Online and PerezHilon.com.

You have to at least least look well-rounded to your friends and acquaintances.

It’s all link here, link there. I have enough websites I actually like, but have no time to visit.

To be honest, I don’t even get business networking sites line LinkedIn and MyGenius. But that’s another story.