One of the biggest reasons is that I've finally gotten over the fact that the word "friend" on a social network doesn't literally mean that.  It can mean that, but more generally it just means a connection on a network.  Usually, this means you're going to follow what the person is doing or subscribe to their information in some way.  Flickr makes this more clear by calling the basic level adding the person as a "contact."  Twitter does this well by simply referring to it as "following" the person.

However, it really is the same on all of the networks, in my opinion.  That doesn't mean you can't have friends and family on them, as well, but it doesn't mean you have to limit it to that.  However, that's how I felt up until recently.  I've learned better now. :)

So, I joined up with twitter which led to joining friendfeed and a few other services.  I've also been using Flickr more and I signed up with Qik for live streaming of video from my N95.

You'll notice links will start appearing on one of the sidebars of this site soon. However, if you've read this far, here are the ones I can think of off the top of my head:

• Flickr for photos and moving images (yep, I signed up for pro)
• Qik for live streaming videos, and their archives
• Twitter for random thoughts and watching others
• friendfeed has links to everything else as well as it's own comments and links

What, no LinkedIn, Facebook, or myspace?  Nope.  Not yet.  Actually, I've got a friendster account somewhere, but that only seems to have my wife and a friend or two right now. Not sure if I'll expand that out or not.

That actually puts the social networks I'm using more within the media sharing realm and my blog for the rest. In any case, feel free to add me on any of the networks.  If your stuff isn't obviously of the spam blog nature, I'll likely return the favor. :)