From: alexboko@umich.edu
Date: Wed May 21 2003 - 20:44:45 MDT
From: "Alex Future Bokov" <alexboko@umich.edu>
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Reason is right. This is so much more than a meet-market. If anything, I'm
hesitant to invite anybody I'd *want to* date... though former relationships
I'm just fine with introducing to friendster.
It taught me something obvious I haven't realized about social networks until
now-- they're opaque. In meatspace, you only know about friends of mine that
I want you to know about. In Friendster you know about everyone. So I wonder
about the unintended consequences of people who know me running into each
other. Still, I like a good experiment no matter how it may blow up in my
face, so I Friendster onward.
Also, someone apparently is running an interesting experiment-- a
disembodied/shared Friendster account named Anarchism that seems to be trying
to link up with everyone who's any type of anarchist. If you want to friend
it, it's full name (friendster asks you for that when you try to friend
someone who is some distance away from you) is Anarchism Tanstaafl, but you
could probably guess that from reading the profile.
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