[brk]

I kind of agree, and as a long-term Netflix user, I never really used the "Friends" feature on Netflix. I may have a really strong friendship with someone, but that doesn't mean we have similar tastes in movies.

I am good friends with someone, we'll talk about movies in meatspace, or maybe on Facebook.

The Netflix "Friends" thing seems to be caught in a bit of a void. Your stronger friendships for casual movies discussions are likely to be maintained on Facebook or Twitter. While the hyper movie aficionados seem to be on imdb or other highly specialized movie discussion boards.

I like the recommendations engine on Netflix, the streaming, the ease of finding movies to watch, but I don't see it as a social hub.

[puredemo]

I think the one thing I might use a friends feature for on Netflix is friending people I didn't already know who had extremely similar taste in films to me, solely for the purpose of seeing what they think about new releases. That would somewhat interesting.