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Let's quit it with all the elitist crap and just admit that the success of a social network among young people is in direct proportion to the chances of them actually getting some action.
This wasn't our insight, of course, but comes from an almost infamous 2005 article about Groupware. In some senses, it's meant metaphorically: make sure your users are happy and they'll keep coming back. But it's also meant literally - Facebook, MySpace and Bebo are as much about ogling hot people as they are about "identity formation", self expression, narcissism and other psychological needs.
Although it would no doubt be fun to enroll some of our younger readers to conduct real world experiments and report back (video or it didn't happen), it would also get us into a lot of trouble. Hence, we're going with a survey. Which social network is the leader when it comes to what we euphemistically call "dating"?