Social Networking

"Connectedness is second in our 'top ten'. We have entered a 'relationship age' in which interactions between people are more important than at any time since the industrial revolution.
You only have to walk down the street to see how people are constantly talking on their phones. The mobile revolution has enabled friends to be constantly present with each other. "

Our era is also the "Social Networking era", which has its good and bad sides.
The Social Networking Conference focus entirely on the business management and marketing of a Social Networking and Internet Personals website.The conference is on January 15-16, 2007 and will be held at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, USA.
As the Miami event is the largest industry gathering of the year, it covers all business aspects of the dating and social networking markets, inlcuding: new technologies, mobile, venture capital, marketing, global business strategies, partnerships, legal issues and payments.

Read on The Social Networking Conferencethe Full Text of US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BILL HR 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 (known as the DOPA Act).
This bill requires social networking sites to delete sexual predator profiles.
Also, in The Social Networking Conference you can find the links for the Full Text of the Pending Legislations on Identity Verification / Background Checks for Social Networking and Internet Personals in Several US States

US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BILL HR 3657 & adjoining US SENATE BILL S1618
(Proposed and Introduced in late 2005, these bills define online dating sites and social networking sites as marriage brokers and require background information)
ILLINOIS HB 5299
(Illinois Introduced this bill on January 25, 2006)
MICHIGAN SB 286
FLORIDA HB 1035
FLORIDA SB 1768
TEXAS HB 1307
CALIFORNIA AB 1681
(Note: California AB1681 is considered dead as of March 22, 2005)
(Pending Legislation in VIRGINIA was also defeated)