I do understand where you are coming from, however there is social neworking like bebo, and myspace, which people define as soley social networking. ET was designed as the community for EW, for artists to communicate.

I was just saying as I had based my research for my dissertation on it, that nowadays people come to WC for their writings first, then to make friends. I found that on ET people had come to make friends regardless if they were interested in art or not. (and then in some cases get moved to EP :P )