Were Web 1.0 dating sites the precursors to Web 2.0 Social networks?

http://www.mintdigital.com/blog/2006/08/07/how-teens-use-myspace/

These teens are simply doing with Web 2.0 social network sites what people did with Web 1.0 dating web sites :-)

We could almost question the added value of these social networking sites.

I don't think 3 persons are representative of the whole population of users, but I'm still not surprised.

Source: plasticbag.org