Interesting opinons, I havent done Hajj, yet or Ummrah, but inshallah some-day.

The lack of patience, lack of manners etc during Hajj, actually reflects the state of our Global Ummah. Education and practical implementation of the Quran is severely lacking.

Most Muslims come supposedly come from third world countries, and the mentality is that, the only way to complete your Hajj is by “aggressively” pushing etc. Again, when you travell into third world muslim countries, you witness those ills, and then people from those societies carry the ills with them, and hence to Mecca.

We cant blame others, we should only blame ourselves. If you see fault in something which you sincerely care about, then make it a journey in your life, to offer remedy to those problems.

If you Live in the West, then their are plenty of tools, which can help you make some positive difference in the Ummah via education, charity, etc.

Im a Scottish Muslim and in society here manners are extremely important. I guess its going to be a Physical Challenge, when inshallah, the day comes for me to Hajj, inshallah. Nevertheless, I look forward to all the challenges in view of performing Hajj

Waslaam

Mohsin beg

One thing: it’s interesting that your view is based from the advertisement perspective, ie. collecting eyeballs for (targeted) adds.
In my opinion social networks will add value not to collect eyeballs but to supply valuable services, content or even third party products.
In that respect it’s not a matter of large networks sharing identities - as the identity is owned by the person, but a identity -contextualized by metadata, friends and content- traversing a sea of services. Like you trust persons to be your friend in social networks, you’ll trust service providers (now known as social networks; like flickr, delicious, digg) to be your provider of valuable content (banners, products, online services, access).
The big social networks are in not endangered by FSN, but are offered a brand new opportunity to monetize their services.