For me, just about the only online social service which is useful enough to justify paying for it is e-mail. And that's definitely one area where the free serv

For me, just about the only online social service which is useful enough to justify paying for it is e-mail. And that's definitely one area where the free services (yeah, GMail) are lightyears ahead of any paid service. So apart from 'infrastructure' stuff (like hosting, domain names, etc.) my online existence is completely free. And I honestly don't see that changing, ever.