I'd Love to Go, But I Have to Stay Home and Network Socially

Peaches just turned me on to a new social networking site called Good Reads. Looks pretty cool at first glance, particularly because it's for a group that seems smaller and less influential with each passing year -- namely, folks who are passionate about reading those things with words that aren't magazines or websites.

But still, my initial thought was, how many freakin' social/professional networking sites do I have to belong to in order to consider myself covered, or up on things, or properly connected to The World of Tomorrow? Between Good Reads, Edit Red, LinkedIn, Facebook, That Crazy-Ass Virtual High School That Tom Built, and others, I spend the first half of my day wading through new messages and ignoring bulletins, quizzes and hacker-spawned ads.

Then I realized I was thinking about it all wrong. If social networks are still the hot new thing (and I know they're not with those kids who know about the hot new things, but there are a hell of a lot of people who aren't those kids, and they're still catching up), I should totally get on it. If I had my own social network geared toward certain interests and tastes, I could make money WHILE I ignored bulletins, quizzes and hacker-spawned ads!

My best ideas for my new business venture after the jump: