Sure, you have your Facebook page, your Virb profile and your MySpace “thing”. You’ve got your Flickr stream, your Upcoming events, and your Twitter status.
But I’m talking about having a website. Those services are great, don’t get me wrong, and maybe you want to use one of them to create your website and that’s fine. What I’m making a case for is a stake in the internet ground to call yours. A little online personal identity. It doesn’t have to be much. Some of my favorites are just splash pages or compilations of links to peoples other online profiles or identities. There’s the now old standby, a blog, where now you can even get fancy and start using pulling in data from Flickr, del.icio.us/Ma.gnolia, Upcoming, and the other “Web 2.0” mash-up ilk. It doesn’t need a fancy domain name, just someplace to call your own.
I guess I’m just tired of joining the next social network and instead just enjoy the plain old vanilla internet. Is that old skool? Have I jumped the shark? Do you remember joining Friendster having fun for two weeks, then asked yourself what’s the point? Now do you look at MySpace and Facebook and just think Social Network 2.0?