Don’t bother with the groups that are people just starting groups for no real reason. It seems to me like the groups that are formed for a specific purpose are the most active in terms of actual events and meetings. The “Save the Animals” group working with the Daejon dog shelter have done a good job, as have a couple soccer and American Football clubs.

I’ll have to check out tumblr.com. orkut.com is another one I forgot to mention.

You know, I’m starting to get enough feedback on this to justify a part 2

Maybe next week. Thanks for all the comments! Keep ‘em coming!

Ning was the service I was thinking of when I wrote the line about creating social networks, but I couldn’t think of it! Thanks! I’d totally support someone (Maybe HubofSparkle?) creating a Ning site, but need to do some more poking around before I could do it myself.

Wow, I totally forgot about Friendster. I used to use that too.

As for Last.fm, I think it’s a really cool concept but at this particular moment I’ve incredibly frustrated with it because any time I open any kind of media file on my computer, last.fm opens up and starts blaring it’s own music on top of whatever it was I was listening to in the first place.

On top of that, I can’t get the darn thing to uninstall, so I’ve kind of considered Last.fm to basically be spyware. To be fair, though, I didn’t really spend much time playing with it before it just started annoying me.