Social Networking...

When looking at photography by other people, a friend told me to look at some of his work on facebook profile, whilst doing this i got distracted not by the photography, but by the social networking system itself...
Social networking is always something i've had put upon me, rather than wanted to do. I started off with a faceparty at 15/16 because my girlfriend at the time was addicted and wanted me to have it too.
In first year college everyone was talking about myspace, this amazing new social networking site it seemed everyone was on except me, so a friend made me an account, to which has hardly changed much since the day he did.
Then most recently facebook, the thing i held off getting for a long long time, until a week before moving to Leeds, when my friend finally cracked me, and told me everyone at uni had it, and that it was the best way to arrange parties and see what was going on in freshers, so obviously i caved in, hating it from the start, and even now not being too taken with it.
Howvere for some people, this simple social networking site can be addictive, and i've saw people everytime they log onto a computer, log onto facebook, and i just don't get it, and that is why i want to look further into social networking as a technology...