I had this long, kinda grumpy post brewing about why we all have too many social networks, and why we all need an open, extensible centralized relationship framework so all these silly social web apps can differentiate themselves in purpose and features, not in ease of finding and add all your friends over and over and over… but instead I finally broke down and joined Twitter. Which was the reason I was going to write that post about social networks to begin with — my strong desire not to join any more social web apps. Unfortunately, though, peer pressure won out tonight while V, Eric, and Niall and I were waiting for Children of Men to start. So here I am, one social network richer.

P.S. -For those keeping count, I think that’s: AIM, Catster, Consumating, Del.icio.us, Digg, email, Flickr, Friendster, Gtalk, Gcal, ICQ, Involver, LinkedIn, Livejournal, MSN, MySpace, PlayStation Network, RSS, Skype, Xbox Live, Twitter, Wii “network” (ha), Yahoo, Yahoo 360, YouTube… way, way too many.

Update: Sorry to everyone who just got wiped from my followers — I wasn’t aware that when you switch to private anyone that isn’t a common friend gets instantly deleted. Would have been nice to know!