It's quite a shame. There are definitely lots of cool things that can be done in this area, but once a network has a large installed base, the ability to do so

It's quite a shame. There are definitely lots of cool things that can be done in this area, but once a network has a large installed base, the ability to do something in social networking (as an outsider) becomes at the will of those large networks. Am I the only one who laments the winner-take-all nature of the social networking space?