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Facebook

Facebook is the king of social networks, rivaling only with Twitter due to Twitter’s ability to easily mass-promote and connect with others.

FriendFeed

FriendFeed is a simplistic social network that lets you bring feeds from a variety of sources, including Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and your RSS feed, into one central location. Additionally, FriendFeed can post updates to other social networks, including Facebook and Twitter.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a social network site designed more as a resume-style site, but there’s definitely the basic social networking aspect involved. You can use LinkedIn both as a way to network with professionals, and to participate in typical social networking.

MySpace

An oldie but a goody, MySpace is one of the original social networks, and while it’s now very music and independent artist oriented, it’s still worth participating in.

Ping.fm

Ping.fm is not so much a social network as it is a type of forwarding service that will take updates you send to it and forward them to a variety of social networks and even IM clients and sites, such as Yahoo. I personally use Ping.fm, and I love it.

Twitter

Twitter is worth using, period. Need I say more?

Ever start an application on Facebook and wonder what they need to access in order to give you access to the app? Well, now you’ll know since Facebook is required to tell you which parts of your profile it needs in order to send you on your way. I feel better when I know what will be accessed.

Who here has gotten request from Facebook friends for those time vaccuums known as “social games?” You know the ones I’m talking about, Farmville, Mafia Wars, Superhero City, etc. I’ve often wondered what the appeal of those “games” are. They are not social; you don’t interact with anyone while you play. You have static pictures of your friends in various spots. There’s no diversity; it’s a point and click experience the whole way. Does anyone enjoy these? I know I don’t. I’d much rather pick out baby shower decorations with friends!