I joined this community of social mongrels 3 years ago and all I get is working class ladies trying to get me to visit their porn site. One would think that MySpace would have a spam blocking agent in place for such unsolicited messages.

I stayed away from this community for about 6 months as I really didn’t feel it was worth the time an or effort to establish my presence. MySpace has quit a following and an addictive fan base. I just don’t get it or I am just to old. I have read many horror stories about older men trying to brain wash young teenage girls in meeting them. I wish that the law would castrate any sex offender. This would be the best form of rehab for any sexual predator.

There’s some goodness to all this and that would be when I found an old friend of mine that I hung out with back in High School. I received a friend request and thought here we go again a Russian lady looking for love online, lol. It was nothing like this, it was an old friend. We spoke about a lot and did a lot of catch up. MySpace is not all that bad, but it rarely provides me value.

I would like to hear your opinions and experiences with MySpace.

Building relationships within the blogsphere is important for any blogger. This network can really be a savor when it comes to information sharing, back-linking, advertising, discovering a blog post for a social network, and making new friends.

It’s ideal to keep your network within your niche as this can leverage your site based on core knowledge about advertising, increasing web traffic, internet tools, etc. Information sharing is why I blog, and I am sure I don’t have to tell anyone how important this is. We share information with other readers and hope to build a fan base.

My blog is mainly about technology. This is a broad category that covers web development, internet tools, computers, internet marketing, etc. My focus is to read blogs based on my niche to expand on my knowledge and to leverage that knowledge to make my blog site a meaningful and successful site.

What is the expectation of the network?

- Build relationships
- Assist with campaigns or contests
- Discover new blog posts with social networks
- Increase back-links
- Share information

I would like to get feedback from other technology based blog sites on how we can really add value to this network and build on it.