Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Not so Delicious

Well, this was another one that didn't really grab me. I really don't think that it is something that I will use on my own, but it is good to know about it and how it works. I did create an account, but honestly I do not want to post my link to it. I am uncomfortable with some of the social networking stuff especially when associating it with other things about me. I probably sound paranoid, but when I first started doing genealogical research I posted some family tree stuff, and my experience is that once something is out on the Internet, it is out there forever. Others copy it, it gets cached, whatever. I like the concept of some of the social networking stuff as a way to share things that you want to share, but honestly I am a little hesitant about it and what a marketing company could do with it for instance. On the other hand as a place to search, it is a great tool. I tried some searches on genealogy and found some pages that I had not heard of before and did not come up on Google, until way down the list. I think that as a place to look for information links, it is wonderful with all the tags to suggest other keywords to search. Overall, good thing, just not for me.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I don't like social networking either. But one step ahead? I'd like to give it a try. Maybe I am too old.