Q: How do you feel about social networking sites/applications/services? Why do you feel this way? How does it affect how you use these things?

A: Social networking sites are a great way to lose friends. Socializing needs to be 1:1, relationships are not forged on posting to walls, emails, and suggesting fan pages, they are created meeting face to face, sharing food or drinks and talking.

Social network sites for me are a good way of sharing influences, video clips and music with people who I already know but I meet on a semi-regular basis. In the last six months I have used Twitter less than ever, I post once or twice a day and have my own rule which is to only post something that could be inspiring to another person, this could be a restaurant tip, a pub tip (complete with google map addresses) from my HTC Legend phone.