I’ve always been fascinated with the Guiness Book of World Records, and all the crazy records you find in there and here about in general. 

  One such record was set just two years ago on March 31 in Japan: for the longest nonstop concert.  Hundreds of musicians between the ages of six and 96 gathered in Omi on the night of March 23.  They each took turns performing over 2000 tunes in 182 hours. 

  As if that weren’t enough, an earthquake shook the city during a piano piece from one of the musicians. 

  The previous world record was set in 2001 in Canada, with 181 hours. 

  Talk about perseverance! 

  Enjoy the music!

These words of wisdom are from Julie Tilsner a blogger and reposted on Walletpop.com.  It not only sums up her feelings about motherhood and social networking, but it works even if you’re not a mom and not just talking about the site Twitter.

 Forgive me for sounding like a three-year-old, but…why? So moms can connect? That’s what parks and cafes are there for. Yes, moms have a lot to commiserate about. They’re also busier than your average CEO and operating on half as much sleep. Plus there are usually no assistants. I don’t know how anyone has time to tweet, much less anyone wrangling babies or small children.

My kids aren’t babies anymore, but I dimly remember those days. Baby finally goes down for her morning nap and I can choose to use my now rare free moments to take a shower, do the dishes, pay some bills, straighten the living room, start a load of laundry, check my email, return phones calls, make some coffee or stare dully into the middle distance. When you add a second baby, you don’t even have that small window anymore. Getting two to nap at the same time is like the planets aligning; a rare and mysterious occurrence. The pressure to tweet would become just another chore.

 Being in Media there is an unspoken need to not only know and understand online social networking, but to use it. 

But there are so many, and what are they all about?  Here are a couple of the bigger ones and what they are about:

There’s MySpace.com – MySpace is an interactive social networking website consisting of personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos. It’s currently the biggest social networking site out there, and while it might not be the most advanced one, the users seem to love its simplicity.

Facebook.com – Facebook() is a social networking phenomenon connection people with their friends, family and other users with similar interests.

Linkedin – LinkedIn is a professional social networking website for business users, one of the most popular such sites out there. Some aspects of it are free, but many are paid.

CafeMom – CafeMom is a social networking site for mothers to connect and share thoughts with each other.

Family 2.0 – Family 2.0 helps you create your own family social network, you can add family members, send personalized emails and create event alerts.

43 Things - A tagging based social networking site. Users create accounts and list a number of goals or hopes and these are parsed based on similarity to goals of other users.

myTripbook.com - myTripbook.com is a place for people who want to share their travel experiences through photos, videos and blogging with others.

Photobucket() – one of the most popular image hosting services around, favorite amongst MySpace users. Makes it very easy to post your images to social networking sites; gives you 25 GB of monthly traffic and 1 GB of storage with images themselves being up to 1 MB in size.

Flickr() – The most popular photo sharing site. Upload photos, create sets and join one of the greatest communities of professional and unprofessional photographers.

Digg.com – Synonymous with social bookmarking: you Digg a story, others Digg it, the more popular it gets the better chance it has of hitting the first page.

Twitter. Communicate and stay connected through the exchange of short status messages.

Good luck out there in the world of online social networking, and of course, this is just a few of the more popular sites of the 1000’s that are out there.