⇒ reasons to avoid social networking fads

Facebook sued
"lawsuit filed on Monday in a southern California court accuses Facebook of being a data-mining operation that does not deliver on promises to give users strict control of data uploaded to profile pages"

Twitter fluff
'"pass-along value" - messages that are being "re-tweeted" or passed on by users to their followers - accounted for 174 messages, or 8.70 per cent'

both were also recently crashed in a hack-attack

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