Ok i admit it. I am the sad, sad slave of the internet, and not only the Internet but even more insidiously the social website and web applications. for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about let me say to you now -RUN FRIEND RUN.
These insidious programs and sharing sites are innocently offered as "away to stay in touch with your friends" or "a useful way to keep all your files and e-mails handy no matter where you are". Well let me task this, you makers of digital crack. HAVE YOU NO HUMANITY?
There are two categories to my addiction here. 1. Social websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Digg. and 2. Web applications like Gmail, Deli.ci.ous, and Jiaku.
Lets start with the web application shall we? Oh web apps, so pretty, so beautiful, so precious. Ahem. yes, well. These Web apps come in a variety or uses and flavors but for the my purposes I'm gonna focus on 1.
Gmail, like it's competitors Yahoo and Hotmail, are web based e-mail programs that you can access form anywhere you can access an internet connection. Gmail lets you organize your mail using tags. A tag is a way of identifying information and marking it so you can find it later. You can tag your messages by sender, categories, or anything your imagination can come up with. But Google, makers of gmail and purveyors of web app crack, also provide you with an online calendar, word-processor, spreadsheet, and rss reader. All of these are free to sign up for and use.
One of the useful things about these online e-mail programs is that if your computer crashes and burns all you need to get your e-mail is another computer with access to the internet.
The second category is much more fiendish. The social website. These websites allow you to invite friends and relatives to the website where you can share pictures, send comments and share your favorite music. Facebook is probably the most popular.
Facebook lets you send virtual drinks to your friends, lets you post photos, share movies in common, lets you post photo's, movies and links you find on the internet, and let your friends know the mood your in. You invite friends to your Facebook page through an invite function. You Can be apart of groups that you have in interest in and then invite your friends to join that group. Also there are allot of small applications you can add to your Facebook profile.
DO YOU SEE HOW INSIDIOUS ITS IS
All that being said I will post a list of some of my favorite social websites and Web Apps.
1. Digg
2. Facebook
3. igoogle
4. Pageflakes
5. Pownce
6. Flickr
7. Prototpages
8.Lastfm
10. stumbleupon
These sites are often fun and quite often useful. My favorite site to discover new social websites or web applications is webware. Webware looks at and reviews these apps and sites regularly and is always pointing to the next new thing.
Q