I’ve had myspace, facebook and linkin accounts mainly because other writers I know had them. But I’m beginning to wonder what the point is - the same writers are moving round - I met them on Zoetrope (a writer’s and artists workshopping site, so at least there’s a valid reason for it to exist). They’ve moved to myspace and now hang out on facebook.

So now the people I already know through other sites are making me their friend and sending me hugs and requests to compare movie taste (no one has the same taste in films as me, I already know this), and posting messages on facebook that i don’t reply to because I don’t have time to go to the site and log in to see what they’ve said.

I can’t help wondering why they don’t cut out the middle man and contact me the old fashioned way, by email.