Buzz

Where are they now?

Social networking sites have become the rave in the last 6 months.  That’s great if you’re a social networking web site owner like Myspace and Facebook.  Fox recently bought the three year old Myspace for a cool $650 million.  For those of us, like myself, who aren’t, this just proves that all you have to do is invent something and sit around for popular culture to make you millions.  Unfortunately for some of us, that cycle may take a while to get around to you (hello webvan?)

A lot of young people are using social networking sites to keep in touch with their friends (all 9,000 of them).  While I only have less than a hundred friends (only a dozen of which actually use a social networking site), I don’t use these sites in ways that everyone else does.  Lately I’ve found myself drawn to them for their nifty search function.  Since Myspace has 54 million registered users (most of which are in the United States), I figured I’d throw a dart and see if I could hit someone I’ve lost touch with.  I’ve moved five times in my life so naturally there are a lot of people that I don’t keep in touch with anymore.  It was interesting to see where some people are and aren’t.  If you’re ever bored or needing a laugh, go fishing on one of the social networking sites for old flames or friends that you haven’t heard from in ages.  Is that girl you had a crush on in high school happily married, still single, or divorced with two kids like mine turned out to be? 

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