Whether you call it Web 2.0, online social networking, facebooking, or whatever, it's actually very similar to blogging: it's about creating and projecting an image of yourself.
Good bloggers carefully sculpt their online appearance by choosing the right topics, the right wording, and the right references.
In the same way, you tinker your profile in, say, Facebook to represent, not necessarily who you are but who you would like others to think you are.
But Facebook is much faster, and includes so many. I mean, there are people on my friends list that I only vaguely recall, but didn't want to offend by questioning our "friendship".
I think photos can be very private, and most of my pics never find the way to Flickr. I keep them at the photo printer's site, where I can control every individual invited to see each frame.
But even my Flickr photos aren't necessarily something I want next to my name on Facebook, visible for people I haven't met for 15 years. So I disabled the Flickr app.
Nancy Baym put this much better than I'm able to in her blog.
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