Local social

This week I've seen some interesting stuff happen on local social networks

1. A friend signs up to Facebook, joins a the Brighton and Hove community just in time to see an advert for a 24 hour party that's just finished at a flat she rents out.

2. I find an old friend on Facebook, and the day he accepts my request I notice one of his friends has lost her ipod. Earlier that day I got an email referencing a local flash developer newsgroup, pointing to a local blogger who had found an ipod. It turned out to be hers and it was returned this morning.

Both are good examples of how small local social networks can get interconnected by bigger networks and users experience the effect in a physical as well as virtual sense.