With all the new social sites popping up left and right, it's hard to stand out from the crowd. Very few keep me interested long enough to stick around.

Although BlogCatalog is a relatively new player in the game, it's growing in leaps and bounds. They keep adding what the majority of the users want and removing things that start to annoy the users. Listening to feedback is a quality that's not shared by all of the social sites. Can you guess which ones listen?

BlogCatalog isn't perfect yet — not by a long shot. It's only natural that there's going to be growing pains and their growing pains were recently made evident with a publicly disclosed data loss.

I don't always have time to join in on the discussions, but I try to make my presence known as often as possible. I have a whole slew of "friends" and have joined a whole slew of "neighborhoods" since I became a member, over a hundred of each. That may not seem like much, but it's a lot for a service that hasn't been as widely publicized as some of the other popular social sites.

Why don't you pay them a visit and take a look around. You're welcome to poke around my profile there.