Sir Tim Berners-Lee on social networking

[OwlHoot]

Clearly he hasn't heard of chatroulette.

Berners-Lee: Stop foaming at the mouth, Twitter | PC Pro blog

And why would anyone _want_ to break barriers, unless they're terminally bored?

I have quite enough strangers suddenly popping up in my emails and so on without wanting to encourage more!

[thunderlizard]

He might like StackOverflow. One of the many good things about StackOverflow is that it prints "comments" (as opposed to "Questions" and "Answers") in a shade of grey that emphasises their impotence.

[doodab]

I saw that once, never again it nearly made my eyes bleed

You got off lightly then

[amcdonald]

Clearly he hasn't heard of chatroulette.

I saw that once, never again it nearly made my eyes bleed

[doodab]

“How do we build the web so that every now and then it introduces us to people who are not friends of friends,” he pondered. For example, if you were a “white male geek living in London, speaking English, you’re Church of England, and you like fishing” and it introduces you to someone just like that, who likes skiing, “to see how that stretches you, to find how you can communicate with skiers, and try to explain to a skier why you spend all that time fishing.”
Or, it might suggest someone just like you, living somewhere entirely different. “Could you actually count that person as a friend, join a group a people who are bridging national divides? That might be more of a stretch. How could we make the web push people so that they break down barriers?” he wondered, calling for people to “make use of the web so it connects people together… and breaks down barriers more than it builds them up.” Again, Berners-Lee issued a challenge for developers to create a social network that does just that.

Clearly he hasn't heard of chatroulette.

Berners-Lee: Stop foaming at the mouth, Twitter | PC Pro blog