Today, social networking is a huge phenomenon. Facebook, MySpace, Friendster - those are just a few out of hundreds (or thousands?) of others. For some people, it may be exciting. For others, it can be overwhelming. For me, I'm just glad to have a place where I can keep in touch with friends, long-lost friends, family members and relatives. And before I go on, I'm writing as a non-celebrity who doesn't use a social networking site to let my fans know when my next pop album is coming out or when is my next road tour or which movie i'm going to star in next. So if you're a celebrity, this post may not be relevant to you.

Call it naive, call it anti-social, but my idea of stepping into the world of social networking is to build a meaningful network of friends, not a large one. I want to find friends that I have lost contact with, keep in touch with friends that I know and they know me, friends that mean something to me for whatever reason. I don't want to have 500 people in my buddy list, when 400 of them are people that I just add randomly or randomly added me to their buddy list. I don't just add my sister's friend's cousin just because he saw my name in my sister's friends list and thought "Oh well I might just as well add her" knowing that my name would be "parked" there under his buddy list when the truth is that we don't know a single thing about each other. Neither do I want to add someone to just make my buddy list turn from "19 friends" to "20 friends".

Other people's idea of stepping into the social networking domain is to keep in touch with existing friends and MAKE new ones.

What about you?