Sitting in one of the sessions last week at JavaOne, I asked a friend why they call it social networking? I mean, I see my kids use "social networking" stuff all the time like instant messaging, MySpace and FaceBook, but I can't help but think all it promotes is unsocial behavior.

Reminds me of a few years ago when Peoria had a major power outage. I think the power in our neighborhood was out for the better part of a day. Without computers and TV you would think the world would have ground to a halt, but strangely it didn't. The conversations for the next few weeks were quite interesting. You would hear people talk about new or rekindled relationships with neighbors. Now that is my idea of "social networking", but I guess I'm showing my age.