We’ve seen the MySpaces and the Facebooks,  and from where I sit and people I talk to,  Facebook is winning in terms of popularity.  But I find myself checking my Facebook related feeds less and less.  It seems too dominated with “status” type one sentence descriptions,  but no place to go for any details or further explanation,  at least from my perspective,  which is one from a Web-savvy, blog tool fan,  and I don’t find much compelling stuff coming from Facebook lately.

I went and looked around just after writing that last sentence,  and I did find “Blog Networks”,  which is much more like what I want from a Social Network.

It would be good if church organizations would consider what kind of “connections” would be helpful in the theological community,  and what would help connect groups/ideas/churches to relevant resources.  The book apps out there (like Facebook’s Visual Bookshelf and Shelfari) and the Library Thing site (which is widely used to display “books I’m reading” on blog sidebars) are always good draws for theologically inclined folks.  It might be cool to have easy ways to tag posts with books from one’s chosen book library app,  similar to the way the allconsuming site aggregated links to books a while back.

More on this a bit later.