The act of using social networking sites, for the express purpose of seeing what others are doing in their personal lives, does not appeal to me. I am quite alone in this thinking. However, there is what could rightly be called “social networking” sites that are used for more focused purposes. This type of site I do use, specifically a WotC (Wizards of the Coast) Community site. I use it so much that I post things there more often than I do on geneome.com. I was trying to think why I do that, and I determined it was because 1) the things I post on the WotC site I don’t consider of any real importance AND 2) what I post on the WotC site people actually want to read. The site, after all, is focused on a very specific line of games from WotC and if you’re on the site you’re looking for that kind of content. Not coincidentally, these same reasons might be given for using a bone fide social network like Facebook.

I’m beginning to wonder if I’ve fallen into the social networking trap. Am I one step away from telling the world on Facebook what I’m doing any given day? Am I on the verge of commenting on photos of people I haven’t thought of in decades? Social networking in any form is a slippery slope to playing Farmville all day. So in order to bolster my commitment to my own site I think I’ll start posting in both places, the WotC site for the social user’s benefit, and on geneome.com for my own.