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Extremely slow and has been for weeks. I have around a thousand friends but not sure how this affects things. It certainly shouldn't do! It's getting to where I hate going on there now and seriously consider quitting completely.

Very interesting statistics and I would definitely have thought that women would have more friends. From my experience on Facebook they are without doubt the most active.
I have over 1000 LinkedIn connections and have just gone over the 1000 mark on Facebook today. Most of these people I don't know, though I am making real friends too.
Next I'm going to try MySpace. I have no real reason to do all this online networking yet, but I'm sure it will come to me eventually!

Tim Baxter's last blog post..12 Ways To Get More Facebook Friends

Good to see you back Chris.

As a web developer I always try to sell the idea of running a blog in tandem with a company's main site. Sadly, but understandably this is usually seen as the web design guy try to make a bit more money.

Apart from the benefits you've already outlined, the absolute killer reason to have a blog in my opinion is because search engines love them. This is especially important for a new domain and website. What other way can you get a new site to be indexed by Google within 7 days?

And for all my enthusiasm about blogs I've only recently created a personal one, with a primary view to tie together all my 'spaces' into one handy base station. Oh and I used your old theme, so I'm glad to see you've changed it!

Should be interesting to see how quickly Mark Zuckerberg changes his thoughts about open standards.