OK, so blogs are now going to get the Social Networking tools Social Networks  have – according to Read/WriteWeb in a post titled .. The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type

“…BuddyPress is a set of WordPress MU specific plugins, each adding a new feature. When complete, BuddyPress will offer extended user profiles, private messaging, groups, friends, status updates, albums, as well as something called “the wire,” which sounds a lot like Twitter.”

Sounds like Movable Type already has Social Networking, as of V4.2

“..With Six Apart’s recent release of Movable Type 4.2, that revolution has begun. The new release provides DIY tools for building your own social networking platform which includes member profiles, forums, friending capabilities, rating of content, and more.”

That reminds me, about a year ago, I thought about how great it would be if you could build a Social Network around a blog.  But then, I thought – well, how many Social Networks can one belong to?  Certainly, not a different Social Network for each blog.  According to the RWW post, that is a problem here as well…

“…the only problem with MT and WordPress going the social networking route is that they are adding yet two more social networks where you will have to establish a profile, find and add friends, etc. Where’s Facebook Friend Connect? Where’s Google Friend Connect? Where’s your portable social graph in all this?

But now, I’m seeing, we don’t really need to have different Social Networks for blogs, all we really need to do or want to to is enable Social Networking features on blogs – and let the Social Graph to the rest.

And, I feel, that’s what we’re going to come to – that point, in the next year.