A Thing called Ning

Ok it's been busy around my house. In addition to mere working, we've had dance and volleyball practices, track meets, history projects, university visits, dog parks and PROM! And yes, I finally got to host the infamous "primping party" for Devon and her friends: 4 hours of nails and hair and giggling prior to the big date. It was a hoot.


Soooooo.... I got kinda saturated with Things. I've lost my momentum. I don't think the "catch up week" was good for me, because I haven't really gotten going again. I was already sort of familiar with Facebook and MySpace, and then there is Ning. How is Ning different from Facebook, exactly? They are both social networking sites, are they not? Ning lets you have groups... Is Ning a "myspace" for grownups? I can see it might make a good team collaboration site, but isn't that what we said we could do with the wiki? So then I started feeling all full of Things, and muddled about what we've already learned and all the Things we've signed up for and which was which and what was what???? So I went back and reviewed the Things we've done so far, which is backwards progress instead of forward. But what good is it to do all these Things if we never look at them again and forget about them as fast as we learned them? I picked out the ones that are most meaningful to me: wiki's, blogs, rss feeds, librarything, and maybe, ning. I'm not sure about it yet. You'd have to make a commitment to Ning, just as folks do for Facebook that you are going to visit the site often and keep it updated and chat with people. I don't honestly think I'm ready for that commitment. It's like a flippin' relationship with a website! It's too much too fast. I'm sorry but I'm not ready to get that serious. Yet. I'm still surfing the field! And speaking of that, I'd better move forward!