"Tweet Tweet here, Blog Blog there, here a Plurk, there a Pownce, everybody Facebook!"

The whole social-networking world has gone MAD!!

Once upon a time, there was a simple telephone. If my brother wanted to know what I'd been up to lately, he'd pick up the phone. Then came email. If my brothers and mum all wanted to know how christmas was with my daughter, a quick click or two, a couple of entries in the CC field, and that was that.

Now we have Social Networking where anyone who has ever heard or seen your name can go and follow every inane rambling you post. Just think, your brothers, parents, cousins, nephews, nieces, uncles-twice-removed-cousins-daughers-boyfriend, ex-partners, old posties & milko's, the tax man, ANYONE and EVERYONE can read that 'I had weetbix for brekkie'.

Just about every page you read has the ability to be added to any one of the eleventeen-hundrathousand bookmarking sites out there via a little panel of buttons. But I wanted to approach it from a different angle. It's all very well registering with all these sites, but how do you then let everyone know what you are connected to? Pick up the phone?? :^)

I figured, if anyone found my site, and knew me enough to really want to know what colour undies I put on this morning, if any, they could select one of the Social Networking icons presented in the Stalker module, and follow/subscribe/whatever to my really-quite-dull-and-unimportant-drivel.

WARNING: Social Networking is seriously damaging to your time management, and possibly to your real-time relationships!! Take some of the pressure off with Ping.fm, don't Social-Network without it!

But seriously...

This is my first ever attempt at a Joomla extension. It's working on my site, and I hope it'll work for you. I had no intention of making any money from this, although with the interest it's gained, donations are always appreciated to help fund further development. It's useful to me, and as a result, I thought I'd offer it to other fellow Joomla users. It started with just a handful of networks, and now supports.. lots!! (I've lost count) Including: Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Linked In, MeetUp, MySpace, Picasa, Plurk, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter & YouTube.

If you want any others added, or have any suggestions, then feel free to let me know.

Download Stalker

JomSocial Plugin

The JomSocial plug-in came about after several requests from users & the Azrul guys themselves.

There is currently a very rough working version in the download section, and I'm working with the Azrul guys to iron out a few problems.

If you have any suggestions, ideas, problems... anything, then head over to the forum and let me know!

Download Stalker for JomSocial

Community Builder Plugin

And if that wasn't enough, we also have a Community Builder version of Stalker available.  There are currently a few issues I'm trying to iron out, but you're welcome to try it out.

Download Stalker for Community Builder