And social media is making the network ever more powerful as a way of selling stuff to people who want it.

而且作为向想要我们产品的人销售的一种方法，社交媒体让这个网络变得更加强大了。

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IS your social network making you fat?

你的社会关系让你增肥了吗？

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Making it easy for users to turn E-mail contacts into PALS on a social network is no guarantee of success either.

即便Buzz让用户很容易把电子邮件联系人变成社交网络上的伙伴，但也不能保证Buzz就能成功。

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And since I have not yet sold the handful of shares of Facebook I own, I guess I remain confident that they can still become a money-making SOCIAL network, and not turn into a doomed-to-fail Google-ish network that used to be social.

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It is also a good example of the money making abilities of East Asian social network sites.

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