Short Answer: No. Google Wave's a collaboration tool, not a social networking application. Long Answer: Google Wave is designed to make communication about a particular topic easy and real-time.It focuses on "waves", which are basically streams which can be edited by anybody who's been added to that wave.
Members of a wave can add text, insert pictures, upload files, etc. For more personal, IM-like communication, you can also "ping" an individual or individuals.(References: I have and regularly use a Google Wave account.) Google Wave is a very different creature than social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. These sites focus on personal interactions, not group discussions about specific topics.
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