PUBLIC MARKS from amyrussell with tag "social networking"

I'm as sick of signing up for new social networks as anybody. I'll never get back the hour I spent establishing an Orkut profile I never used just because two hipster friends momentarily thought Orkut was cool and badgered me into submission.

According to a pair of articles on BusinessWeek.com, the social networking site Facebook.com attracted 11.5 million individual visitors over the age of 35 in June, more than double the number a year before. The growth of this segment is remarkable, given that the site was not open to all until late September 2006, and the increasing “graying” of Facebook is predicted to change the site’s character and content.