None of these companies are profitable and they are fads Rembember Geocities, or AOL Chat, or ICQ These services could not survive on their own. Facebook, Myspace, orkut, groove networks, linked in. Not self sustainning. They are features not business models. No one has figured how to montize these services yet. And they've only been trying for a decade. Big whoop that they are growing..Where's the beef?
The original poster is right. Sites like Twitter will pull us out of this mental recession. Why is there no emoticon for rolling your eyes? ~telengard
Do you guys got a facebook account? One day, I just surfed my girlfriend's account looking for old pals, but only got the ugly chicks from high school doing fashion and "party" photos,almost puked and then shut it down forever.