Re:Social networks: Friendster

From: alexboko@umich.edu
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 15:51:10 MDT

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    From: "Alex Future Bokov" <alexboko@umich.edu>
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    [quote from: Michael on 2003-05-21 at 22:39:56]
    I think these disembodied personas act like interests in connecting
    large numbers of people who would not normally have connected social
    networks. Notice that the normal interests only allow you to search
    within your extended social network. These personas link large numbers
    of networks together like big Cisco router farms...

    Does this mean that you have an interest in beer
    (http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=188090), and it connects you to large
    numbers of other people who would not normally have have a connected social
    network with you? Hey, this thing is pretty DAMN realistic.

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