bedeviled mojo slop

I've seen a few more posts flowing about Orkut. So, maybe it's too soon for Orkut, but honestly, how has your life in the real world changed because you're a member of Friendster, LinkedIn, etc?

What's changed about your day to day offline? Have you gone to dinner and a movie with your Orkuts or Friendsters? Were you a part of a mountain biking trip in the Adirondacks?

Or have you just added a few more feeds to NetNewsWire? Or did you spend your lunch hour clicking voyeruistically through your mother's cousin's sister's former roommate's party photos from last weekend?

Quote 1: The site is built in ASP.NET (cool). Overall design, usability, and speed is great. I think it's going to be a fun place to hang out.

Quote 2: It has many security and privacy issues just as other social networking services have. For example, one can send a message to thousands of members with only a few clicks. There could be some XSS (cross-site scripting) problems as well. But, overall, I have yet to see anything that can't be resolved over time given sufficient technical, financial, emotional, spiritual, or religious fervor.

So what do you think or perceive are the social benefits of Orkut membership? All I've seen so far are a few blips of its technical "shortcomings".

Quote 3 (my emphasis): Nosing around it right now (thanks Chris!) it is like a who's who of open source, blogging, and CS academia. Not sure how I got into that. It's interesting to trace connections, and I have already found a few bloggers that I have added subs to, mostly from the academia grouping) -- but that is entertaining for a morning, and then runs out.