Expanding your social network beyond your familiar circle of friends can have surprising benefit. It's those weak ties that bring fresh ideas and unexpected opportunities: maybe a job or an apartment or a mate. The Internet is providing new tools for cultivating and capitalizing on those networks; someone you never meet in person could change your life.

Social Networking Blogs

  • Ran Zilca

    Confessions of a Techie

    How to navigate the tech maze and maintain sanity.
  • Melinda Blau

    Consequential Strangers

    The Power of People Who Don't Seem To Matter...But Really Do
  • Kenneth J. Gergen PhD

    iSelf

    Living in the changing world of communication technology.

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