Social networking and autism

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Hello everyone! I'm doing research on links between how social networking sites such as wrongplanet and facebook can help people on the spectrum develop social skills and make friends. If you know of any journals or articles related to this, please post links here. If you have benefited from similar sites and are willing to answer a few questions, post here or send me a message. Thank you all ^^

These websites have help me gradually becoming more sociable, because I've been invited to so many of my friend's houses that way.I always relate to how was my day,if it was exciting or boring.I usually bring good quotes on to my page. I am thankful enough to have such great friends and family that care about what I say,How I am doing or if they want to go out with me.

I find social media, and especially facebook, more difficult than dealing with people in "real" life.

I don't know when I should or shouldn't respond to event invites, or wall posts, etc, and I end up ignoring it mostly, even when not responding to an event invite might actually be really rude.

I've used the internet as my primary means of socializing since 1993, and used BBSes from 1989 until 1994. I think it definitely improved my overall social life and most of my friends over the years have been people I met via BBSes and later the internet.

I've participated in mailing lists, usenet, online forums, livejournal, blogs, twitter. I found the ability to build real-time communities around shared interests with people across the world to be a fascinating thing.

Really, finding online socializing was a kind of evolution for me long before there was anything called a "social network."

I don't believe it helps anyone, such sites have killed off more indepth socialising both online and in real life. I think the only benefit in such social networking sites is in keeping up with friends...because seemingly this is how most people choose to socialise, such sites are important for us to communicate and attend social gatherings only in so much as we can see them happening...and without such sites we'd never be told.