Reading today about the battle (so called) for the social network space. Will it be facebook, will mySpace? Will it be both of them, one or the other? Does it really matter?
In my discussions with GenC a couple of consistent themes come up:

we go where our network is
we prefer to message people through the social […]

First - no excuses for the silence, but sometimes work gets in the way of a good idea!
I was recently at a session on social networking with a couple of school kids who were talking about how they communicate with each other and with their networks.
On the whole, their preferred manner is through the network […]