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Social Network Sites (SNS). Compiled for the differences among users and non-users of social network sites.

I remember way, way back to November 2006 when Wall Street was stunned that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) was paying the ungodly sum of $1.65 billion for privately held YouTube. How were they to monetize this goofy, home video web site? Since November 2006, it appears that Google got a bargain when compared to other social networking web sites.

So it happened the other day. I was checking e-mail, pondering whether to invest with an Ethiopian banker who only needed $500 to transfer me $10 million, and there it was.

To the Millennials reading this, here's something you might want to save as a time capsule or something. I entered the workforce in January of 1995. My first job was as a graphic designer for Columbia House -- the 10-CDs-for-99-cents people (that's right, before CDs became drink coasters, you could order them through snail mail).

I am shocked to find out that some large companies forbid their employees to use LinkedIn. These companies worry that if they expose the names of the people who work for them, that the best of their crop might be pillaged and yanked from their ranks. Well, I can only imagine the kind of environment that exists inside of a company that tries to create a roadblock in front of their people.

Kevin Eyres, European managing director of professional networking site LinkedIn, has been a little busy of late. Two weeks ago he exchanged wedding vows with Sigrid - German born, London based, and a fellow new media mover.

Anyone in business has probably received it: the e-mailed invite from a colleague to join his or her connection at LinkedIn, the business Internet networking site.

ONCE A MONTH, NATALIE Ghidotti must organize a meeting for the Arkansas chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

I have been a total skeptic on proprietary messaging within social networks. After all, who on earth would want a proprietary tool when e-mail reaches everybody? I love it, though, when circumstances change a deeply ingrained opinion. The technology business has a way of doing that. You've likely heard the expression, "I live in Outlook." Well I used to. Now I hop rather awkwardly between Outlook and Gmail. Could I soon live in LinkedIn? Could you?

You’ve got a Web site, a blog, and maybe even an RSS feed. Think you’re done with Web 2.0? Think again.