Can I use silverlight for building SocialNetworking applicaiton?

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Hi all,

I am wondering: how feasible it would be to start developing a social networking website entirely based on silverlight;

This has been fairly discussed over the years in favor of HTML. Has something changed with silverlight improvements over the years?

What about:

* Performance
  -- active users
  -- technology used, MVVM + MEF (possibility of lags, server memory overflow...)
* Security
  --- WCF Ria Services & EF

What are your thoughts on this subject?

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