User blog comment:Dopp/Meet More Wikians with Improved Profiles/@comment-3569803-20110801235055/@comment-1393830-20110801235450

It is. Whether they want to acknowledge it or not, there is a large push to make wikia more like a social networking site. This feature emphasizes profiles, the main part of facebook. You yourself wanted statuses. I just wish there were new features that emphasized content rather than aspects of wikia which are not important like user profiles.