I just got an invitation to join a social-networking site called LinkedIn. I won't join ... just like I haven't joined Facebook. Actually, my name is on Facebook but I don't respond to all its "friending," "you have messages" and other requests for a variety of reasons -- it takes too much time; it might compromise my privacy; it's a young persons distraction; and it seems slightly vainglorious.
This social networking phenomenon has me perplexed. I like most people, but I don't want them to know every inane thing I do. However, I am willing to share my thinking with them ... thus all these blogs of mine. So, by demurring, I am willing to be lumped into the "old foggie" category ... probably because that is exactly what I am.
