User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1351982-20110926205824

This is not good for several reasons.

1)We have some users who are minors with parents who might not want them on sites like Facebook, you could possibly drive away a large demographic.

2) It is just bad web design. I have taken a basic course on web design, and the most important rule in web design is to make your information accessible to your users. This update would make it harder for admins and users to communicate with each other.

3)Most importantly, this is an INFORMATION SITE, NOT A SOCIAL SITE. The two features I have enjoyed are the blogs and chat features. It helps at our wiki to stay connected and work as a team to keep everything up and running, and we can use chat to goof off and speculate without putting the actual content of our wiki at risk.

The vast majority here do not want to do this, and if you continue A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL LEAVE! I am not trying to be harsh, but this is the reality, talk with your users about what they want, and stop trying to compete with Facebook.