According to the article "Social networking targets the enterprise," social networking seems to be exploring new market spaces and providing added functionality to the user in terms of expanding the network that the user has access to. Given the example of the furniture salesperson, it seems that competitive intelligence is also being integrated into the social networking domain - nothing wrong with that and it should actually be a step in the right direction as social networks target the enterprise element.

Right now there are social networking sites that provide unfettered access to personal and private information. Whether enterprise level activities can lend itself to this unfettered access remains to be seen, especially where the prevalence of proprietary information may come about.