It should be noted that namesdatabase.com is an email address harvesting site for spam.

No- I think they just evolved a bit. More of social networking groups are out there now, and with many websites the pattern from an idea to the actual site lacks. Mainly due to the amount of work involved – time and money needed to make them successful, and gain users.

I use LinkedIn – and that seems to be a pretty good network. But just like exercise – you need to “go and do it” every once in a while.

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New kid in town – https://www.linkedin.com/ – a network of IT professionals. A good idea – finding a good job in industry involves a lot of networking, why not help people with an online service?

It seems that with social networking there is this effect that the ‘new kid in town’ is grabbing The Collective Attention Span. What happens with it in a year? who knows.

People are turning to sites like namesdatabase.com much more now. They are lightweight social networking sites, and have excellent people search tools. By watching the numbers on their front page, you can tell this is exploding.

Besides mySpace and Livejournal, college students have been big on theFacebook.com. It gives them a way to search people just in their school instead of the entire world. Many use it as a friendly way of stalking – “who was that girl in my english class?” Or they can use it even before they attend class the first day. With their online registration system, they can see the list of other students in class and go look them up on thefacebook and see if there are any potential friends.

Philip, You are right. No one wants to be friends with you. I agree with Scott Laird. Successful social networking communities are likely to evolve more from sites such as Flickr.

flickr does a great job of connecting people – a much better job than friendster (even though that’s not flickr’s raison d’