by Sean Ludwig, pcmag.com
Facebook, MySpace, and other general social networks are great for connecting with friends and sharing your interests. But they serve a general audience, and they don't always do a good job of filtering information to let you focus on a particular interest—whether it be a favorite book series, a collection of wines, or a particular sport. So instead of joining yet another Facebook group, why not try a niche social network?
There are lots of them out there for just about every interest, and they are constantly being added to. Companies have launched sites for gearheads, bookworms, and dog lovers. There are also services such as Ning, which allows individual users to create their own social networks—so far more than a million individual networks have been built with it. Special interest networks give fans and devotees a forum to indulge their passions and meet like-minded friends.
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