Can Social Networking Sites Affect Your Personal Relationships?

I hadn’t put too much thought into this until recently. There are so many ways on the internet to socialize with others. With the people you know, with people you don’t…you have so many options to connect with others , but can this harm your relationship with your significant other? There are networking sites, dating sites, social networking sites, reunion sites…to name a few categories.

I recently had a friend of mine join Facebook. She told me she was loving the fact she was connecting with some childhood and high school friends. She also made a comment that I found odd… She said her husband rejected her friendship request and he doesn’t want her on his page. Hmmmm…but why? That comment made me wonder if indeed these sites affects the relationship you have with your boyfriend/husband, wife/girlfriend. She did mention she asked her husband to at least see his page, which he gladly did, but he still doesn't want her to be part of his page.

What are your thoughts? If your significant other was on Facebook (or another site) and they denied your friendship, which prevents you from being included on their page, how would you feel? Would you wonder why? Would you think they were keeping something from you or hiding something? Maybe you would think they just didn’t want you to see what happens on their page and who they’re talking to?

If you were in a relationship and your significant other purposely kept you off their page, would this action affect your relationship in any way or create a trust issue?

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Feeling So Honored

Below is an email I received from Sibyl, founder of Sibyl Magazine. What an honor to be asked to contribute to this women's e-magazine! I responded by asking how to submit a post/article and the guidelines for doing so. See her response after her initial email.

I am bringing this to your attention because I want to extend her invitation to you also, as she suggests. I know that some of you have superior blogs that contain many posts that can also be included in this magazine to help women.

Please let me know if you have contributed and what post/article you submitted. Remember: you must submit by March 5th.


SIBYL Magazine"
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:35:27 -0500

Dear Woman Of the Universe and / or Agent Of Change:
Firstly, we salute you for all the wonderful work you do to uplift and encourage
positive change and transformation in the world.

Our online publication, SIBYL eMagazine focuses on personal and spiritual transformation.
Our readership touches base with a large pool of women (inter) nationally -- over 50,000 bi-monthly in readership, extended mainly to a mature audience, women 30+.

After browsing through your website, we felt compelled to inquire if you or someone withinyour circle of influence has an authentic, informative or soul-inspiring message to share with our readers -- a contributing article of interest.

OUR GOAL - is to touch, heal and change the lives of women, one page at a time.
Through the eyes and lives of another woman, we can all be changed is our slogan for 2008.

Of course, all incoming articles / written-works are reviewed and selected by our editorial staff.
And we prefer all recipients to have a viable website, as we enjoy directing our readers to their site,
after reading her story, article or column for continued enlightenment and learning.

Feel free to send this simple message out to as many women as you know. Send it both far and wide,
for there may be someone, who knows someone else ... who has a soul-story to share with the world.

Download a FREE issue of SIBYL eMagazine, in order to get a feel for the style and
essence of our online periodical. Thank you for your time and interest.
Go to: www.SibylMagazine.com

Love, light and joy always,
Sibyl Lee-English, Founder and Editor-In-Chief
SIBYL Magazine:For the Spirit And Soul Of Woman

Response received:

Sibyl Lee-English"
From:"Sibyl Lee-English"
Subject: Re: Response
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:23:45 -0500
To:andrea@acassociatesusa.com


Andrea:

Thanks for your inquiry for submission and review in SIBYL eMagazine.
After browsing through all 3 of your blogs, we see that you have a host
of powerful life-lesson articles to pull from.

Our suggestion is that you share one subject that your Spirit
speaks to your heart to share with women in the world right now.

Simple Guidelines:
Please edit as much as possible and keep your word count within 500 -
800 words

Send in to us as soon as possible, no later than March 5th; the
earlier the better.

We look forward to receiving your words of love and enlightenment.

And please do share our link with your circle of influence,
so that they, like you will receive SBIYL eMagazine FREE (on a
bimonthly basis).

www.Sibylmagazine.com

Love, Light and Joy,

SIBYL eMagazine - PUBLIC RELATIONS STAFF

While You Read, You Learn

One of my many favorites listed at Technorati is the AdesBlog. He provides great tips and resources about several topics and I have learned a thing or two from reading his posts. One post, EntreCard Performance brought my attention to the EntreCard site. Maybe I'm last in learning about this site, but after checking it out, I joined on 12/23.

I have to say, since joining, I have come across some great blogs that I otherwise might not have known about. This site offers you your business card to network with other bloggers, while bringing traffic to your blog. Mind you, this is all free. Go to EntreCard to learn more and how it all works. Additionally, I am noticing a change in my stats for Alexa, Real Rank, MBL and BC all for the better due to the new traffic which is definitely there.

Since 12/23, here are my stats for my blogs. As you can see, additional traffic is noted. Hopefully, I have gained some readers while bloggers are dropping their card at my blog.

A Circle of Women:
Quickstats
203 credits in your account
53 credits to advertise on your blog
150 cards you dropped
133 cards dropped on you
21 clicks via ads you placed
42 clicks from your blog to others
9 ads you bought
9 ads bought from you
150 clicks from entrecard.com to you


AC Associates Blog
Quickstats
34 credits in your account
46 credits to advertise on your blog
152 cards you dropped 117 cards dropped on you
82 clicks via ads you placed
37 clicks from your blog to others
10 ads you bought 8 ads bought from you
123 clicks from entrecard.com to you


A Contest You Should Consider:

While dropping my card on other blogs, I came across Big Pappa at The Big Bald Blog. I was immediately drawn to his blog. I like his style, humor, the information he provides...he's got soul.
Anyone who can admit in a post not knowing how to pronounce 'meme', is okay in my book. I was laughing out loud for I thought I was the only one that didn't know. Ok, there...I admitted it too. And, thanks to Big Pappa, I now know how to pronounce meme.

Big Pappa is running a contest and offering some cool prizes:
An 8 Gig iPod Touch
500 Entrecard Credits
A total blog review from Mike over at Bloggin-Ads
Some cool Big Pappa Worldwide gear

Check out his site for the rules. If you decide not to enter the contest, check out his blog anyway. You'll enjoy your visit.

After having said all that I did, last but not least,I want to thank all who have paid with their credits to spotlight their blog on my sites. I also want to express my appreciation for those bloggers who have allowed my advertisement on their blogs. I think I found a new fun addiction...