QUOTE(One @ Wed 24th February 2010, 2:08am)
Almost as odd as describing Wikipedia as a "free content online encyclopedia." Certainly, that's the product, but the users of Wikipedia are on a sort of social networking site.
It's particularly a social networking site for some of the kids, with their often naïvely detailed information about themselves on their userpages, "friends" lists, "guestbooks," "hidden pages," and at least in a couple instances, "
Mary Sue" fiction about themselves and their friends' adventures on Wikipedia, styled like a Nickelodeon cartoon. Worse, most of these social-networking uses have been approved by The Communityâ„¢ at some point, even though supposedly "Wikipedia is not MySpace."
It's pretty frightening, and a potential predators' paradise.
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