Probably Not The Best Use of Your Social Networking Time

Tuesday July 26, 2005

"Brazilian police arrested 10 people on Thursday accused of selling drugs using Google's international social networking site Orkut, which is hugely popular in the Latin American country.
"We discovered the drug ring first via authorized phone tapping, and later the investigation included monitoring of their activities on the Internet," said a duty officer at the Drugs Enforcement Service in the city of Niteroi, just across the bay from Rio de Janeiro."

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Multiply.com: another community of friends online, otherwise known as "social networking." You tell one friend, and that friend tells another friend, and so on. Of course, social networking tools are meant to be used responsibly, not for, you know, selling drugs.

del.icio.us: "del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others."