Networked Out: Are There Too Many Social Web Sites?

If we aren’t already cyber-networked out, we’re hitting online networking fatigue as we navigate the plethora of new social sites dedicated to everything from divorce or paganism to firefighting or anime. “

We’ve only got so much time in the day, and that’s what it boils down to,” says Fred Stutzman, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina’s School of Information and Library Science. “You want to be there with your friends, you want to hang out with them, but when there are so many social networks, we can’t really meaningfully spend time there. And if you’re not getting meaningful interactions, then it’s not all that fun.”