Networking Overload

This week I have entered the world of Facebook, Linkin, and flickr. I went to
Facebook and established myself with a profile page and checked my address book for "friends' and lo and behold I had some in my book who were active and had sites. I sent out some invitations. I have a nephew who is a sophmore in high school who accepted and responded that his mother thought it was hilarious that I had a facebook site. Another older "friend' who responded said a friend of his invited him so he set something up, but thought that Facebook was skewed pretty young for him, and said he did most of his business networking through Linkin.com. I investigated that site and checked my address book, and found that my sister was on that site along with a few others. I did some invites on that site and spent some time completing my life history on a profile page.

It was interesting to me that (National) Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, the company I work with as a Realtor, had a facebook site and it looked to be part of the network presence of the company with information about the company and entries on the wall from many Coldwell Banker Realtors around the company doing networking for referrals. That was a good idea, so I'm now on there too!

I had an account on flickr for picture sharing but hadn't done much with it for about a year. I renewed my acquaintance and decided to set up a family group to share pictures and comments and downloaded some family pictures into the group site, sent email invites to family members and, of course, my teenage nephew was also right on top of joining up on that one. He must be on the computer in all of his spare time. I notice he has lots of friends. Lots of them girls!

So now that I have my bio out to the world I wonder if I will be inundated with "friends" and 'business" and "family" to the point that I will be unable to handle the mass of communication I may have caused. It will be interesting to see what my workload will be in coming weeks to support all my reaching out activity. I hope that it is manageable and that I can keep the grapevine I have planted from dying from lack of regular watering and fertilization.