Social "networking" or social "stressworking"?
What does the term social networking evoke for you: Facebook, Bebo, MySpace LinkedIn, Plaxo, Friendsreunited etc etc? In the bricks and mortar world, your local coffee shop - I refrain from mentioning just Starbucks, nice though their coffess are - or bar, church, work cafe or pub could each suffice as a viable channel for social networking. However with accounts on Facebook, Bebo, LinkedIn and Plaxo, I think I may be suffering from a case of social stressworking. In fact, I know sure I am. Keeping up to date with profiles, friend requests and the like has for me, become, well, a bit tiresome. The process of keeping all those the delicate china plates spinning at once has become too time consuming. That's time when I could be leaving my cares of even the internet world behind and getting into reading a good (physical) book. Don't get me wrong I am not going to become a hermit. And I certainly don't begrudge those who send me friend requests online, it's just hav...