Friendster
Jun. 20th, 2003 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I just got an invitation to join friendster.
So can anybody explain what that is to me? Pros and cons?
(I'm not sure I really need to get myself addicted to another time-suck...)
So can anybody explain what that is to me? Pros and cons?
(I'm not sure I really need to get myself addicted to another time-suck...)
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Date: 2003-06-20 06:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-06-20 08:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-06-20 07:17 am (UTC)reminds me of LJ in some respects, feels like a big social experiment, though i haven't encountered any drama on there.
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Date: 2003-06-20 07:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-06-20 07:22 am (UTC)There are over 20k people within 5 hops of me. Because some people seem to think that the point is to befriend as many people as possible. So the search function is a little useless, because it was not designed for that many hits; it's not fine-grained enough. Not enough selection criteria; in particular I'd like to be able to prune my connection tree to get rid of FOAF who have 300 friends.
And I've gotten offended responses when I wouldn't befriend someone I've only met like twice and don't know anythig about. How can I match them up if I don't know them?
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Date: 2003-06-20 07:39 am (UTC)Well, if you were a Victorian or Edwardian gentlebeing, and you wanted to meet someone in order to have an affair, or a partner for tennis, or someone to help you in your philanthropic work, (but NOT for a business connection -- Victorian and Edwardian gentlebeings don't work) you wouldn't just go up and start talking to them. You'd need an introduction. So, you'd need to figure out who you knew who knew that person, and get them to introduce you.
If you didn't know anyone who knew someone who knew the person, you'd need to know someone who knew someone who knew that person, and get an introduction from them to the other person, and from the other person to the person you knew.
And so forth.
Obviously, the two difficulties with this system are 1) figuring out whether someone who you don't know is worth going through the trouble of all this to get to know, and 2) building the friend chain.
Friendster automates those processes.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-06-20 08:45 am (UTC)Not worth the energy or effort - I keep deleting the invites I get.
:)
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Date: 2003-06-20 09:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-06-20 07:11 pm (UTC)just another popularity contest.
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Date: 2003-06-20 09:17 pm (UTC)I don't think it needs to be a big time suck, but if you're not interested, just delete the invite. ;)
- Hope
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Date: 2003-06-21 01:20 pm (UTC)Friendster Beta
Date: 2003-06-21 06:36 am (UTC)Ah, the dot-com business model:
1. Get people to join
2. ?????
3. Profit!
M.