No one ever told me how to do it. And even if someone had, I'd still have to experience things first hand to know any better. I entered fatherhood, as I venture most of us do, without fully realizing what I was getting into or having a plan to deal with life's greatest responsibility--bringing a human being into the world and helping this little person to thrive in our chaotic world.

Or, what Friendster begat. But Friendster is so late 90s. (It is likely that most people who are facile with MySpace, FaceBook, LinkedIn, and YouTube never even heard of Friendster.) Regardless, the human need to connect, share, and collaborate is well-known and documented. From its inception, the Web promised to level the playing field and democratize communications. But in its first commercial phases, the Web became a mouthpiece for large corporations attempting to push their presence and their wares. The interactive, community-building aspects were pushed aside by the prospect of e-commerce on a mass scale. Brick and mortar entities simply sought to upload their strategies and presence on the web with little or no regard to the burgeoning possibilities of the two-way communication that is intrinsic to this medium.