Social Networking Websites

While searching for social networking websites on wikipedia.com, they had a list of 178 social networking websites. I do not spend too much time in front of a computer so I am not sure if wikipedia.com is leaving any sites unlisted. I am a frequent user of facebook.com, I used to use myspace.com but I found that facebook.com is a lot easier to network yourself in a lot of different ways. I use this site to keep in contact with distant friends who have moved away or just off to school in a different state. I also use it to stay connected with local friends with simple updates and it also allows me to know how people are doing throughout their day if I log on frequent enough. I find it crazy that people are starting to update more frequent everyday. The latest aspect that surprised me was that some friends are updating their status via XBOX and/or Play Station 3. so as they are in the middle of a game they can check or update their profile from their game console. I remember when I was attending school in Chico, California some of my friends were getting prepared to throw a pretty huge party one night and they decided to post a bulletin on myspace.com so everyone of there friends was aware of the party and where it was being held at. Soon after posting the bulletin the Chico police department showed up at the door early in the evening warning them about the consequences that will be presented to them if they follow through and throw their party. So this showed that law enforcement and the government monitor these sites very carefully. And that was the biggest result of something happening due to the exploitation of a social networking site.