are you connected?

With Prince William joining Facebook this week, social networking sites have hit the news in the UK again. Here’s a handy overview of Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Twitter and Second Life, written by their users, from this week’s Guardian newspaper:

With websites such as Facebook and MySpace constantly being talked about in the media, it must be easy to feel like a 20th-century luddite if you aren’t already part of the in-crowd. Here lies a great disconnect at the heart of 21st-century socialising: either you’re in (and use every social networking website you can) or you’re out (and don’t use them at all).

About Jon Reed

Jon Reed is a writer, lecturer and social media consultant. He is the author of Get Up to Speed With Online Marketing (FT Prentice Hall, 2010) and runs the social media consultancy Reed Media, providing training and workshops on social media marketing. He previously worked in publishing for 10 years, including as publishing director for McGraw-Hill. He launched Publishing Talk in 2007. More about Publishing Talk...

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