Does anyone have experience with one or all of these "social networks"?

I maintain a My Space, which I have had for sometime. I am accustomed to it's layout. The kids who frequent this site are actually fun. I have made many of friends with them. Some are now 18 and seek my advice and wisdom regarding their adult decisions.

Recently I have had "invites" from people, and some parties unknown who have invited me to their Plaxo and LinkEdit. I have joined just to spare me from the constant barrage of emails inviting me to be their "friend"!

How important are these sites..business and personal? I enjoy My Space and as I have said, I have made many friends including lots of kids. What has been your experience, good and bad?

Do they, maybe, take the place of sororities and fraternities--a way of sending out personal 'needs' to a life-line of similar brothers or sisters for jobs. contacts etc. If you are a successful performer--or a performing artist, CG--you should have your own web page in which to advertise yourself.

I tend to use Fool Moon as a personal blog sometimes. As for social networking sites like those mentioned, they're just not my thing.

I believe they, and forums like FM, appeal to people because we are social creatures. Pack animals. It can be a very good thing to bounce ideas off of other people. We can find out what experiences they have had with what we are about to try or are doing right now.

I have had a Myspace page for a while now. In general it is a great place to network however; you will get a lot of kids that aren't as nice as the ones you are friends with. Personally I accept friendship from the kids which is one of the great things I enjoy about Myspace, you are able to accept or decline if as you please.

There are a lot of people who do network there and use it as just a place to advertise. Even porn sites register accounts and subtlety make their way through the masses of people asking for friendship. Those who accept are usually boggled down with spam in the inbox and comment area. There are also a lot of hackers in the Myspace system. They lead you to links outside the system and onto some blank page then require you to log back into your page before you gain access then they use your account to pass their spam. I've been hacked a couple times before I realized it was more my error than theirs. I needed to pay more attention.

I've had many good experiences on Myspace. I enjoy the time I spend there however with the good comes the bad. But I believe that you'll find that anywhere you go.