Well, it looks like Six Apart is taking some inspiration from the old dope peddler's playbook: "Get 'em while they're young." LiveJournal's new Schools Directory feature stands to pull in a lot of fresh faces by way of connecting up the folks kids tend to spend loads of time with: their classmates. Unlike Facebook, this isn't limited to colleges and universities, nor is it limited to a pre-selected list of schools — it's open to elementary, junior and high schools as well and you can add in your own school if it's not already listed. I'm with Jordan on wondering about wizarding schools — but I'm having no luck finding Hogwart's in the listing by geographic region. [Via Download Squad] ...

Social networking and college life have been the topics of numerous posts here on The Social Software Weblog over the past year or so. About a week ago i was going to write up an announcement about a new social networking service created to compete with thefacebook but, i procrastinated about trying out iProcrastinate.com. Primarily because i visited the iProcrastinate site and it's weird red blurred circles pulsing in an annoying fashion along with the primitive placement of conflicting fonts, serifed and sans, that appeared on my screen. There is nothing particularly inviting about this site. Have any of you tried it? Inviting me to import my facebook profile with strange red circles flashing in a chaotic frenzy simply didn't invite me to investigate any further than the first page. And it would appear that the students at Stanford University weren't very impressed either, according to The Stanford Daily writer Nila Bala. MTV gives a more positive spin. ...