I don't think so for several reasons 1) While nerds are upset over Facebook most people are not. There would need to be a compelling reason for these people to

I don't think so for several reasons 1) While nerds are upset over Facebook most people are not. There would need to be a compelling reason for these people to sign up and I don't think privacy is enough for most people. 2) They don't seem to be that focused on being user friendly and how a typical end user can use their service 3) Distributed systems in an uncontrolled environment are slower and more error prone which will make it less user friendly. 4) How am I going to keep track of what hundreds of my friends are up to? Am I going to have to connect to hundreds of nodes to pull updates. Or is my node going to have to connect to hundreds of nodes to push updates?