Social Networking lacks appeal
I think the concept of social networking sounds interesting but lacks real appeal. I remember registering for orkut in its early days but never logged into it later after building a community. Reason - there is nothing much to do there (and most of the time, the site itself is down).
While this concept of socal networking is good, it’ll only take off when there is some good services added on top of it (Yahoo 360 seem to be doing a good job here). When these social networks are built, if services like Photo Album Sharing, Chat/group messages within groups etc are enabled, it’ll be helpful. Also, other stuff like something along the lines of match.com will also add more value on top of social networking.
Social Networking itself can be considered as a platform on top of which other services can be offered to these groups of networks.
Raju