On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:21:38PM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > > Out of curiosity, why? (I get the reality TV bit, though) > > Social networking sites are the Interweb's reality TV. Also, they are > utterly useless. facebook confuses and annoys me, while Orkut merely > annoys me.
They're far from being utterly useless -- great way to mine marketing, financial, intelligence and HR screening data. Pity the poor information exhibitionists, though. They never make the connection.
