Infidel Rat: She invited me to her Facebook page
I'm a long time usenet guy. There are no moderaters, no smiley faces, and no picture representations of your "personality." Adults joke, debate, plan events and interact with one another with nothing more than text.
Usenet is dying and the forums have taken hold. This is a good one in so far as the moderaters are extremely lienient with their power to squash anything other than mundane speech.
This social networking thing is a complete mystery to me however. The people you know and interact with become your "friends" and write "how ya doin" on your wall everyday? WTF? If you already know and interact with these people everyday, couldn't they just write a "how ya doin" e-mail? Do we really need dedicated systems and servers for this?