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[ I posted this over at Book Place also but thought I'd post it here as well. ] I came to Book Place by way of Crimespace which was the first "social network" that I decided to join. With Crimespace I saw the point, I'm an editor of an online e-zine of crime fiction. Ditto with Book Place as I'm a hopeless collector of books. I've spent a lot of time adding new "friends" as the requests come in…