It looks like the days of MySpace being king of the social networking hill are officially over. Many say it’s been over for about a year now, but for the first time, Facebook surpassed MySpace last month in audience reach according to Alexa traffic rankings. People are leaving MySpace for Facebook by the masses, and the number will only increase exponentially. Social networking sites are only fun if other people are on the site to interact with. Personally, my MySpace account has been dead for the most part because nobody ever checks their account anymore. They are all on Facebook or Twitter now.

Many people say that Facebook and Twitter are fads just like MySpace was, and that people are only on these sites now because they are the new, hip thing. They predict their audience will eventually move to other sites as well once a new thing comes out. I disagree. I believe MySpace was a rickety mess to begin with, and it only got worse when News Corp took over. They haven’t done much with the site to improve the performance. Bits and pieces of the site are constantly down at the most inconvenient times. Facebook on the other hand almost never has issues with their site.

As people flock to these other social networking sites, I predict a massive traffic loss for MySpace. I’m thinking that half the MySpace audience will be lost by the end of this year.

I would like to punch the person that made up stumblecards. They annoy my browsing pleasure. They are the infomercial you see while flipping through channels. They are the fly in my soup. They are the insect part in my rice.

The whole point of StumbleUpon is to browse things you might be interested in, not advertisements disguised as trading cards.

LinkedIn seems to be gaining momentum in being a real player in social networking. Invitations from users have been attracting more and more users to the site each day.

The site allows you to see the professional background of a person. It’s kind of like an online resume. You can search for people you used to work with and see where they ended up. Get back in touch with old friends.

The site seems to be flourishing since it’s basically a simpler MySpace or Facebook, without all the junk that makes those sites difficult to work with. There are no cluttering ads, no annoying emails from people you don’t want to contact you (you have to pay a fee to be able to send messages) and no spam.

I’m officially hooked. I’m on the site all day searching for people I’ve been wondering about. Let’s see if it will go the way of Facebook and MySpace and bore me to the point of an abandoned account.

A few weeks ago, I posted a tip to make Windows Vista blue screen on demand. I learned about this from a friend of mine at work and decided to post it. Yesterday I received an email from a person that had this tip posted on his site as well. He claimed that I stole his content and scolded me for not crediting his site. The content was written slightly different than I had, but it achieved the same result.

I have received a few of these ridiculous messages from web site owners from time to time claiming that I somehow stole content from their site. I’m shocked that these people actually believe they own the rights on how to do things. There are only so many ways you can perform a task or get something done on a computer. I guess the makers of all these new Windows Vista books should be suing each other, because they all have the same data in them. They all have the same tutorials and they all are just slightly different from one another.

As long as the content is not being copied verbatim, it is not plagiarism. We all have the right to learn information on our own and post it in our own words no matter how many other people did it first. Even if we learn the information from another web site, it is still not plagiarism. I never copy information and I always cite sources when I should.