so we have heard of how people use social networking websites for superficial reasons. For one, showing and comparing the number of friends they have. Users don't really care about who they "add" or "friend request" them, but they simply need the numbers. For that reason, social networking sites may not seem to have well established the connection of many facebook users and their friends. Afterall, according to Oxford professor of evolutionary psychology Robin Dunbar, 150 is the maximum number of social relationships anyone can handle.
With that in mind, a few geniuses came up with Path- a social networking site where you microblog, share pictures, blah blah but you're only restricted to a maximum of 50 friends on your network. This plans to ensure that you are closely connected with the people in your friends' list/network and in a way, sharing of files and photos seems more private and intimate.
Although Path is restricted to only I-phone users at the moment, it has gained popularity pretty quickly with hundreds of thousans of users across the globe. Creator Dave Morin even rejected Google's offer of $100 million to buy over Path recently.
Other than social networking, food networking-a new interest has been tantilizing our senses online has fast grown into the likings of many. From blog postings for food reccomendations (Iron Lady Chef) to recently emerged Foodily- a food networking site engages people to share their food recipes online and reccomends healthy food recipes for users who are looking to satisfy their palates. This concept has brought about foodies and non-foodies alike to to be able to not only create their own food but also to show an appreciation for food ingredients.
In collaboration with Facebook, Foodily aggregates recipes from renown chefs from retaurants and food channels and works as an online catalogue for food lovers to compare recipes and even organise potluck dinners with Foodily members, similar to the concept of a 'Book Club'. How cool is that?
