Facebook

I recently created a facebook account. If your a reader of this blog, and have a facebook account, search for me there. (I'm too lazy to create a link, and more importantly, I don't really want to - I want google to have to guess at the connection). If you don't have a facebook account, and don't know what it is - imagine the web redesigned by the marketing department (or at least the part of the marketing department responsible for collecting demographic information). And there's something about social networking (versus all the anti-social networking sites out there) Thoughts from short usage

• The CAPTCHA's required before creating a friend request are pretty inscrutable. I am even more firmly certain that the first Artificial Intelligence will arise as a result of spam/anti-spam escalating warfare. (Although, according to a recent Defcon talk, current CAPTCHA's aren't implemented as well as they could be, so the technology required to beat them is still not that sophisticated)
• The applications built on the platform are enticing, but what access do they provide to the personal data entered into the system? The developer TOS say the API doesn't allow access to contact info, but everything else is fair game. Hmmmm.