I have to admit that when I started getting serious about Active Rain I would visit it two, three times a day.  I would be eating and breathing blog post ideas.  I would get up early in the morning to write a post.  Then I would brush my teeth and take a shower.

Then I found Facebook.  Yeah.  Sure.  Facebook has been around for ages.  It wasn't until recently that it took on a whole new aura for "old" people.  You know.  Non-college students. People that are out in the work world and want to connect for business.

Yeah, I know.  There is LinkedIn for "professionals" but, truth be told, Facebook is a lot more fun and it really does put the "social" into social networking.  In fact, I kind of like Facebook.  It doesn't take a lot of time.  You can establish relationships, of a sort, by commenting on people's status updates, join affinity groups, start business pages, fan pages and all kinds of neat and groovy stuff.

It' isn't the same as Active Rain.  Probably apples and oranges.  But it's an interesting phenomenon.

So...what about you?  What's the first page you turn to when it's time to do a little online "socializing"?  Active Rain or Facebook?