Wallop, the invite-only social network spun off from Microsoft, launched today to much Internet hoopla, actually looks like a fresh take on social networking. This time, instead of seeing ads, users pay the site a buck or two to add modules to their user pages. It's a convenient way to re-establish the classic grade-school hierarchy, where it pays to be pretty and vice versa.

But Wallop's best feature is completely free: After you've signed up and made too many friends, you don't delete them through a boring point-click-click interface. You get to drag them away from your social circle. Let's hope they make the little avatars beg for mercy.

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