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Can't we all be Friendsters?

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The Return Of Rothkoid

04:13 / 26.07.03

Yes. I've already received mad props for adventures in creative profanity.

bitchiekittie

21:00 / 26.07.03

I joined, and took a short look around. from first impressions alone it seems to be where all the social pariahs and blowhards go to mate. or die.

PREEEEEEN, little doggie, PREEEEN!

bitchiekittie

21:02 / 26.07.03

(that said, I haven't deleted my account and am even adding to it)

The Apple-Picker

22:24 / 26.07.03

I am there now, too. All I do is read the same 10 pages over and over again, though. I haven't been brave enough to venture out and read stranger's profiles.

If you're interested, I'm theapplepicker at graffiti.net

Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

23:07 / 26.07.03

I have to say this is all a bit sinister and I want nothing to do with it.

Perfect Tommy

00:19 / 27.07.03

The concept is good in theory. But it seems vulnerable to the fact that there are too many people who will just accept any friendship offer, whether from a typical human dislike of rejecting people or because a big friends list looks impressive to other primates.

It's kind of a shame, because even if everyone just put down people they'd met in the flesh, networks would still grow staggeringly quickly in wacky interesting ways.

Cherry Bomb

08:46 / 08.08.03

I finally cracked. Someone add me! Add me! mein_cheese@hotmail.com

How do I find all you people anyway? I can't seem to find anyone...

Tryphena Absent

09:00 / 08.08.03

Ha Cherry! Welcome to the mad, bad world of Friendster!

videodrome

09:32 / 08.08.03

_pin

11:48 / 08.08.03

I'm adding people, and I've just noticed people probablly won't know it's me when I do. My email is _chris@graffiti.net, so you know when you get asked.

Oh God. How pleading am I??

mondo a-go-go

16:51 / 10.08.03

So has anyone seen Tribe? It's like they combined Friendster with Meetup.com. It's a bit buggy so far, but I like the idea.

Someone should start a barbelith.tribe.com. I don't have time to do it though.

mondo a-go-go

16:53 / 10.08.03

Whoops! That should be tribe.net.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:08 / 10.08.03

I've given in and signed up too- stoatie@stoatie.fsworld.co.uk

Now I'm off to check out this tribe thing...

01:18 / 11.08.03

I wasn't actually very interested in this, just sort of curious. So why am I so irked that they require me to be either male or female to sign up? Both tribe and friendster have the dreaded "male/female" radio buttons.

Cherry Bomb

08:01 / 11.08.03

I'd like to say that I'm particularly taken with the idea of being friends with cities, towns, ideas and muppets, which is available to you on friendster. I've just become friendsters with Feminism, and I'm hoping to pal around with Chicago and its subways, Red Line and Blue Line, Miss Piggy, and Patsy Stone.

Fun fun!

Tryphena Absent

08:21 / 11.08.03

I am Tom Marvolo Riddle.

Baz Auckland

16:12 / 11.08.03

Hee hee. I just looked through the Toronto people I'm now connected to, and found pretty much everyone I've ever talked to via online personals... small world.

at the scarwash

18:02 / 11.08.03

I love friendster. It's like some Pokemon-style trading-card battle game, only with (theoretically) real people. Gotta catch'em all!!!

Cherry Bomb

08:16 / 12.08.03

Be my friend! First name: The Tube
Last Name: The Tube

Bear

09:07 / 12.08.03

Now really why do you need 2 doesn't that just confuse matters? Although thanks for the testimony, I keep meaning to write one for everyone but I don't know what to write, might try and do that this afternoon.

Who has famous people on their lists, I want famous people!!

Cherry Bomb

09:45 / 12.08.03

I just really like the idea of representing a mass transit system, Bear. I'm trying hard to resist the urge of registering as "LONDON" next. I don't think I could handle 3!!!

Anyway, it's easy to get famous people - just do a user search you can get lots of folks!

Bear

10:01 / 12.08.03

Yeah but I'm talking real famous not comic book famous

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:06 / 12.08.03

I think I've cheated somewhat: "Continue only if you really are a friend of The Tube"... as a dyed-in-the-wool bus man and Hackneyite, this may not strictly be true... but then, if the Tube's gonna ask me to be friends, what can I do?

Maybe we could set up a virtual Underground system- "You (the Victoria Line) are connected to the Piccadilly Line through Finsbury Park"... or is that all a little too Mornington Crescent?

Cherry Bomb

16:01 / 12.08.03

I have appended with an appropriate testimonial, Justin.

Baz Auckland

02:52 / 13.08.03

I am having way too much fun with this now... I am connected to over 70 cute goths.

...including one ex-girlfriend from grade 10! Via a Barbeloid! Fun!

03:55 / 13.08.03

I wrote an e-mail to the Tribe.net folks about the gender marker thing, not expecting anything in the way of results, but they actually wrote me back to say they were "taking my comments under advisement". Which, as it happens, does exactly what it's supposed to-- it makes me feel like the service is being put together by nice people who's financial success I should actually care about.

Hopefully I will eventually be able to join the service without having to pretend to be something I'm not.

Red Cross Iodized Salt

04:19 / 13.08.03

Has anyone seen the Friendster nazi's yet? If you're linked to 'Krispy Kronic' you should be within their network. Cue lots of photos of white power assholes standing in front of their gun collections.

Red Cross Iodized Salt

04:24 / 13.08.03

Check out 'Reverend's' interests:

"THE MASTER RACE, National Socialism, Aryans, White Power, Music, Renting movies, Genocide, Ethnic cleansing, Cuddling, Hate crimes, Romance, Racialism, Art, Murder scenes, Showers and ovens, Kissing pretty girls, Ramen noodles. "

Cuddling and hate crimes. He also hearts "Emo girls." It's only the gun pictures that keeps me from beliving its a pisstake.

Baz Auckland

10:42 / 13.08.03

But would nazis eat Ramen noodles?

Tryphena Absent

10:58 / 13.08.03

Reverend sounds like he'd make Tom Riddle a great friend- if he wasn't a dirty mudblood.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:48 / 14.08.03

First to hit (not literally... you'd have an awfully sore fist) a million friends gets their own thread in which to be congratulated.

My money's on Cherry/The Tube, although there's an obvious advantage there.

Cherry Bomb

09:22 / 14.08.03

Um, isn't Tom Riddle a mudblood himself, Anna????

No stoatie it's not gonna be me - my money is on mono, she's waaaay ahead of me! Though I am quite happy and proud to be friends with mass transit systems from around the globe...

that

09:35 / 14.08.03

Tom Riddle's a 'halfblood', like HP. 'Mudblood' means muggle-born, like Hermione.

Tryphena Absent

09:36 / 14.08.03

No, Riddle's a halfblood but that doesn't stop him being a fascist who won't make friends with anyone who isn't a pureblood. That's his charm you see.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:45 / 14.08.03

This whole Friendster thing's somewhat addictive, no? It's like a cult or something...

actually, come to think of it, that's what most of my meatspace friends think Barbelith's like, too... except, of course, lilly, Hattie's Kitchen and Felicia Hardy TB, what with them all having since become imaginary...

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