Ning

I've set up a Ning account, but haven't yet created or joined a Ning network because my group hasn't settled on a topic to use for this project, and also because I'm not quite sure what to make of Ning. There doesn't seem to be a clear way of navigating the site. In fact, aside from blog links, I haven't seen that there's all that much to the site at all yet. This is probably just because I'm totally new to the site and haven't gotten accustomed to how it works or what it does, but even so, having seen what little I've seen on the site, I had a hard time imagining how it will fit into this project. A trip to Wikipedia cleared up a good deal of my confusion, however. I'm still not sure how the social networking aspect will work within the context of Ning, but now I do understand that it functions as a kind of host and archive for many social groups and networks. Once my group settles on a topic for our project, it will be interesting to see how this site functions from an inside context.