"Lessons learned on Sesame Street...."

I, Like so many, but not all, of America's youth spent some amount of time watching my friends who live on Sesame Street play, live and learn. And somewhere along the way we were given the exercise to figure out out of 4 things on the screen, which one didn't belong in that group. You remember, 3 apples and a bike tire, 3 girls and a Tasmanian devil (ok, that one was tough for our fathers), and so on...

Now, along comes Facebook which is helping to create an online genre called "Social Networking": "A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others."

It is a great way to stay in touch with friends, share stories and photos invitations and all kinds of ways to "poke" your friends. It is also a great way to reconnect with folks that you haven't seen or met in a very long time... And since MySpace has made it's run and targeted a mostly younger demographic, the FaceBook users, for the most part, tend to be a little older, perhaps mature and less interest in fake names and .GIF icons all over the page... Yes, a kinder, gentler group of online socialites sharing daring tales of fantastic fetes and amazing feats of adventure. Welcoming new arrivals and trash talking your buddies around the globe. A way to connect and stay close when not near... and meet new friends too! It;s a place where the common man might stumble across the great and powerful and connect at a safe and distant level. A way for some of these folks to reach down and connect with the more common of man sometimes referred to as "Constituents". Where we can see these folks as real people and hear their message from their own fingertips... we think.

I digress, lets get back to Sesame Street:
Which one of these things doesn't belong with the others? ;-)