Initially I was thoroughly enthused with social networks like myspace and facebook. I added friends, left comments, described how I awesome I am, reconnected with people, and of course looked at pictures of people trying to out awesome me.

It was great. I was by no means the king of myspace or facebook, but Ben Koo was a man of the people, adored and respected by hundreds of close friends, classmates, random acquaintances, and former colleagues from Chippendales.

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Then it suddenly went all down hill. My first employer after college (Etrade) did not share my enthusiasm for social networking as exhibited by their restrictive internet network which blocked both facebook and myspace in addition to everything else where business efficiency goes to die.

Luckily I moved on from Etrade but it didn’t help. My current employer does not literally block these site , but oddly I find myself prohibited in dabbling in the art of procastination and e-schmoozing due to a steady diet of too much work.

I would love to read so and so’s 100th survey bulletin of 2008, look at pictures of someone’s new apartment, and perhaps say some deragatory comments to the friends I miss most. If only one could get paid for being the prom king of myspace or facebook.

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But what bothers me most besides not having the time, is the actual direction of both these social networking platforms. I initially thought when Fox purchased myspace in 2005, that the website would a) run better b) restrict shady myspacers c) get a better user interface

Regardless of connection speed, processor, or browser,