Check out this great post over on Aaron Hoos blog on if social networking sites were college students. In a word, it’s awesome.
- Classmates.com: the self-absorbed senior who’s been attending college for 8 years to get a 4 year degree
- MySpace: once the most popular student in school … put on some weight and sold out to “the man”
- Facebook: the great looking guy that has it all … his popularity on the rise … but in ten years … he’ll feel empty inside
- Orkut: doesn’t speak English … and he’s not good enough to play the exotic angle to get dates
- Bebo: the off-campus student no one has heard of
- LinkedIn: he’s mostly talk and optimistic dreams but he has to work twice as hard to get the same marks as everyone else
- Xing: he’s a little awkward around the girls and he sometimes forgets to wear matching socks
- Plaxo: he talks a big, big game but he didn’t make the football team and he’s not on the dean’s list