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Senh: Interesting how Facebook, which is probably at the height of its popularity now, is being used as a tool for law enforcement to capture criminals, while MySpace during its heyday was being used by pedophiles to commit crime.

Senh: Wings has an interesting concept, but there are probably privacy concerns. I'm not sure people would be willing to let this app pull in their private information from various social networking sites to get a date. It's kinda creepy. It's good concept, just not sure, with the recent flare-up from Facebook users regarding privacy settings changes, if people will actually their personal info to be sliced and diced by a third-party app.

Senh: Smart move by Amazon. Eventually, it'll turn into an efficient black and white version of an iPad, which isn't bad. If you're just text messaging or reading email, you don't really need color.

Senh: That's the big question, they're growing fast, but can they become profitable. With click-thru rates on social networking sites being so low compared to content sites, can they find another revenue stream? Will targeted advertising work? They've been talking about it forever. We were never really able to make targeted advertising work for Rotten Tomatoes, mainly because the size of that audience becomes so much smaller when you target them. But Facebook is one of the largest sites in the world, so that might not matter. The only problem is MySpace has been trying to figure that out since they were the biggest social networking site in the world, and look where they went.

Senh: I guess the issues over Facebook's privacy settings affected people's sentiments about the site. Although what does this really mean though. They're one of the most hated companies, but they're also one of the most visited. Has the site became so indispensable that people are using it even though they hate the company? Or are they most hated just because they're one of the biggest sites on the planet, and therefore has a lot more complainers?

Senh: Impressive. I wonder if it's the social plugins that sparked the privacy concerns the reason for Facebook's growth for the last couple months. Myspace isn't growing anymore, but it seemed to have stabilized, which isn't too bad if the company budget accordingly. Twitter seems like its gotten as big as it could get. Maybe now they can finally focus on monetization.