Invite your friends and family to link to your personal page. Then it's easy to stay connected and up to date with what's happening in their lives. And they can do the same.

Organize your friends and family into categories that make sense to you -- work, school, poker buddies, running club, reading group, whatever -- then you can send a message to everyone in a category.

Or you can control access to areas of your personal page by category, in case you don't want the folks at work to see your goofy Yahoo! Photos or don't want your mom to read your blog.