User blog comment:Dopp/Meet More Wikians with Improved Profiles/@comment-3569803-20110801235055/@comment-1025281-20110802000855

And in turn, had you been around longer, you would have noticed that the trend towards "social networking" (often disdained) has not substantially damaged the quality of traditional wiki content on Wikia on those wikis that have willingly embraced those changes. I don't understand these complaints about Wikia "becoming like Facebook" with this change. The effect of this change is to make it easier for users who are willing to share a profile to do that. Even without it, users are already sharing the exact same kind of information, only using more roundabout methods such as userboxes or infoboxes on user pages.