I’m currently browsing my “personal network” under Friendster. Someone should do a paper on the implications of Friendster and similar tools as abstractions/models of the social network hyperspace/graph. Heck, that would be an interesting study— mapping social networks into hyperspace. Issues include navigation of such a hyperspace as presented by Friendster and related applications, and how other models/etc. can be used (i.e instead of HTML and hypertext, why not use visual cues via clustering? or navigating the social network hyperspace via interest clusters?)
Previously: Cross your fingers