Originally Posted by stereolab

there's a major shift going on in the whole 'social networking' thing from relationship-networking to 'shared interest' networking. you can see that with Yahoo's recent buys. http://del.icio.us/ and http://webjay.org/. To me, it makes more sense to network people via shared interest rather than relationships. or even better, a combination of the two. myspace is doing a pretty good job of leveraging its membership base, even though most of the sites on myspace look worse than Geocities circa 1996.