Standing Out

So I discovered yet another social network - this time things are a little different. It’s a website that sort of takes things like MySpace Groups & Facebook Groups and pimps it out majorly. It’s called Ning.com and the premise is built around the notion of creating “your own” social network.

You’re really creating your own “group” but I’ll play along with calling it a “social network” because I suppose it can be classified that way as well.

Either way, I took the bait. I created my own. Self Employed Mamas Rock. That’s my new social network. I’m looking for members so if you’re a rockin self employed mama, you need to be there!

But really, is there such a thing as social network addiction? Can you really have too many social networks? Here’s my list so far. I think it’s getting ridiculous. How about you?

• Facebook (friends & biz)
• Biznik (biz)
• LinkedIn (biz)
• MySpace (friends)
• Bebo (who knows; I created it ages ago)
• Plaxo (friends & biz)
• StartupNation (biz)
• Active Rain (biz)
• Multiply (friends & fam but I haven’t even set up my profile yet)
• Twitter (biz)
• Squidoo (biz)
• Ning (who knows? I’m just breaking the ice with what it can do)
• Friendster (friends but it’s been ages)
• Indiepublic (just joined about twenty minutes before I joined ning.com)

I don’t want to be a victim of social network addiction! Then I’ll need to start an entirely new group called Social Network Addicts Anonymous…