A few days ago I noticed that some people don’t always get what Social Networking is all about. Especially on websites like Twitter and Facebook.

To me, the whole point of social networking is to enhance and expand your circle of friends, or at least that’s what I thought, but it seems that some people feel that these networks should be closed groups and only the closest friends should be on their lists.

Tagging photos of on Facebook is another thing, OK, I understand if you want privacy, but if you’ve tagged hundreds of pictures of yourself should you remove a rag that someone else has added?

What about adding people who you don’t really know, like secondary or tertiary friends or friends of friends. I’ve just cleared over 100 “friends” who I didn’t really know. So how do people expand their group of friends if people get annoyed if you add people?

It seems that more and more people are signing up to these networks because they’re the “in thing” with a lot of celebrities at the moment but don’t really understand the concept. That is a shame really because the potential for them to meet new friends is immense.