According to the diligent Daniel Voyager (and a tweet from the my-second-life team), Second Life’s own social network based around Second Life user profiles is going live into production sometime today.
It will be interesting to see how this works out. I don’t, personally, expect to get a lot of use out of it, for reasons that I have already stated. Instead, I expect it to be just one more social network on my post-publishing check-list.
Nevertheless, it should be interesting to see how it actually functions when it is put in front of the user-base at-large. That’s where things always get interesting.