What can social networking do for you?

I love technology. There, I said it. I'm like Wired. I think that technology and science are the one and only way to go. So naturally, you would think (or at least I would think) that this article that espouses how social networking and Web 2.0 can make life bit-rate perfect would be right down my alley. WRONG! I think that social networking is really cool and I think that it has its uses. But who the hell is going to transfer money from their bank account to a supermarket to help a homeless person?

Call me heartless (I actually am heartless but that shouldn't surprise you by now) but the author of that article is full of sh*t. You see, the publisher of the article, CNET, is headquartered in San Francisco. Now, San Francisco is the mecca for the counter-culture and GLBT community but it's also a mecca for something else. You wonder where Guliani sent all the homeless in New York? Well, just train your eyes on the city by the bay.

San Francisco is very tolerant of the homeless. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about them. Anyway, basically what I'm saying is that the CNET article is trying to appeal to the Snob Hill (reference to Nob Hill) techie elitists. So I guess that I would fall more in line with this guy's views of social networkings' potential. But only to an extent. I'm sorry but anyone who disses Wikipedia (praise be to it!) is a heretic. Oh... I guess I'm in the other camp now...