Since Facebook was created, all sorts of social networks have popped up over the web. You have Foursquare, Twitter, (various copies of Twitter), Flickr, Friendfeed, Delicious, and a hundred or so more. Each network claims to have its own purpose and benefit the internet. I'm here to claim that more social networks actually are a detriment to the internet, and here is why:

I propose that for every social network that is created on the internet, every other social network becomes less valuable. In an ideal world, you can see this claim play out very easily. To demonstrate this, we are going …