Might not be all that far off… the US intelligence community is heavily invested in social networking as a tool for finding the interconnections between terrorist cells … following the traffic to see who is really in charge and the like.

It has some value as it can reveal connections between people even they didn’t know they had.

But they have to remember that just like the “six degrees of separation” game a connection doesn’t mean involvement, and of course they are dependent on the quality of the data originally entered into the program. The results they get when they input specific, carefully verified data on long observed suspects is going to be a lot better than when they go data mining the whole internet. GiGo

And the companies that are providing all the easily hacked electronic voting machines have GOP connections as well, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all that some of the money and impetus behind the social networking programs had links to the CIA, NSA and the rest of the US alphabet soup