The Introduction

In 1997 the creators of sixdegrees.com started a phenomenon that maybe even they didn't know would blow up. 2002 Friendster becomes one of the most recognizable social networking sites on the internet. A year later in 2003 people began receiving friend requests from a man named "Tom" on a then unknown site called Myspace, and now in 2009 the 5-year-old site Facebook has generated more than  150,000,000 individual users. 

All of these social networking sites set out to do one thing or another, but mainly to bring people from across the country and even world together, and it looks as if some have succeeded. 

With hundreds and hundreds of social networking sites on the internet in almost every country, people are becoming connected in a way never seen before. This can be a good or a bad thing depending on how we look at it.  I myself belong to a couple of social networking sites (Facebook and Myspace) for the sole purpose of connecting with those from my past and even some new friends, but also to make sure everyone knows what I'm doing at every waking moment of my day, that's the point right?

The purpose of this blog is to explore what you have gotten out of your social networking experience. There are many stories of success, love and building relationships as well as those about cheating, dishonesty, and disorganization. This blog is an interactive one and I will be posting stories from you the reader, as well as some of my own, whether they be good, bad, funny, displeasing and sometimes gross. Then, those stories that seem fitting will be added to the book I have been working on for some time now. So please if you have something you'd like to share e-mail SNHstories@gmail.com and check back regularly to hear what exactly has been going on in our social networking world.

- Glen