The Top 10 Social Networking Annoyances

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:00 Prime Minister PDT

Recommend this story?

Please Wait...

The same inquiry people used to inquire about PCs can be asked of societal networks: Were our lives easier or harder, better or worse, simpler or more than complex, before they came around? The reply is yes. For some folks, societal networking land sites such as as Facebook and MySpace look nearly as indispensable as e-mail, but creating and maintaining these practical circles of friends turns out to be quite a spot of work, often necessarily so. Here are the 10 things that bug me most about today's societal networking services. 10. MySpace Kitsch

Ning, which allows you put up your ain usage societal network, have attracted attending for its ability to make communities that are more than functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo. Nonprofits, support groups, and hobbyists have got establish their places on Ning. But, as with many new vicinities on the Web, the seedier side of the civilization is often the first to travel in. As on Second Life, pornography reportedly consists a important per centum of the communities Ning hosts. Flickr confronts a similar issue, but it shields unsuspicious visitants from seeing grownup content through default filters (that is, you must actively choose out of the filter). Ning offers no such as setting, which do the land site tough to urge to schools and families.