Google+ is very interesting especially in the privacy and context realms. Facebook will have to continue to be innovative to compete or may suffer the same fate as MySpace.

By contrast, an aspect of Cisco's success is that its CEO, John Chambers, refuses to define Cisco's business strategy in terms of a single technology. Rather, Cisco defines a business strategy in terms of clients' needs, and then seeks the best technology to serve those needs.

So too, relationships, whether social or business, should not be defined by the technology that facilitates interaction. A friend of mine who worked for a large Silicon Valley company once mentioned that his teenage sons had "internet friends." A sad comment, I thought. If I have "Myspace friends," I will have fewer friends — or no friends — as people migrate to Facebook, Twitter, or even back to email and the telephone.

Social and business relationships should be defined by the content of those relationships. New technology may enable us to interact more efficiently, but new technology cannot define the content of a relationship. And, it is the content of the relationship that we need to nurture, especially the relationship with the one to whom you are wed.

We tend to think that because we use the tools, everyone does, but it just ain't true. It's like people of a certain closed religion will automatically think everyone must think like they do too.

Thanks for the comment. Through more reading I've also found that If you find a good blog, see if they have a links to Bloggers they are interested in. Typically at least two will be pretty good.