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I totally agree with you about the ‘adding friends’ topic that you and Axel brought up. I was put in the situation where someone from my high school added me as a ‘friend’ and I could describe him as anything but a friend. I think that people add you as there friend simply to feel loved and a sense of belonging (Maslow's hierarchy of needs), in hope that you will post something nice about them and make them feel better about themselves. Although, I do acknowledge that not all Facebook addicts are that bad… Another grip I have with Facebook and mySpace is that you spend hours upon hours getting your profile to look great and then another SNS comes along that is better than yours and you have to start from scratch again. Has anyone else had this problem?

I did find your opinion on the business side of these sites very interesting but not lacking in supporting research. There are other ways of making money on websites besides advertising. For example, websites can participate in affiliate marketing programs as well as selling the information on their members to companies. This is probably not the case with the larger SNS because of privacy and security issues but the smaller ones like Meetup.com and Threadless.com would actively engage these tactics. You can read more on these methods on this blog (http://platinum-success-systems.com/blog/?p=7).