Something I’ve been meaning to post for a while:
I’ve had some problems with the whole Friendster thing — I signed up, but I feel like it’s a fad that isn’t going to last very long… here’s something I read at Marc’s Voice calling into question the whole methodology of friendster:
A is my sister. B is me. C is my meth dealer. D is his “debt collector.” My relationship with my sister includes her trusting me not to introduce her to known criminals. Any service that proposes to remove me from deciding which introductions to broker doesn’t get my business.
Kinda funny when you think about it. It’s kind of cool to see all the folks your friends are friends with, but wouldn’t you prefer a personal introduction, anyway?
Not to mention that it seems to be mutating into this odd celebrity finder — who do I know who’s famous? “I hear Henry Rollins is on friendster!” or “Is that reallly Rufus Wainwright?” And I’m sure that they really want to hear from you.
It seems like there must be a better way to connect friends and relations. I’m not sure what it is, but I’ll think about it…
Friendster does suck, all my friends and I moved to Impersonals.com
Friendster is nothing but fake profiles connected to bots controlled by the illuminati.
I know.
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i agree. friendster is for people obsessed with portraying an “image”, sculpting it and selling it to others in a competition to be the coolest and have the most “online friends”. What the hell? You don’t know these people! You may like the way they look or what bands and crap they SAY they like, but why are you sitting behind your computer looking at someone’s list of reasons they are cool. How insecure is that?
True, the only thing worse than sitting behind your computer looking at people is sitting behind your computer criticizing them like youre doing.
This is in direct response to the person commenting on the use of “image sculpting” to “sell yourself” on friendster. I suppose when you leave your house in the morning there is no attention given to your appearance, or state of cleanliness. Or when going out for the evening you wouldn’t, I assume, pay extra attention to your make-up or manner of dress; because that, too would be image sculpting. From your statements it’s clear that in your world, someone like yourself doesn’t have to rely on these
“selling” tactics more suited for the “insecure”. With that, we can only surmise that you don’t need to communicate with others to know whether or not you are compatible as friends. So how do you do it Sadie? Can you lick a persons cheek and through taste find out all there is to know about them? Or maybe you sniff them like, say, a dog or cat. That would be handy. Just how many friends does a person so quick to point fingers at others have?
Haha…. I just meant that people on Friendster, it seems to me, feel like they aren’t effective enough in the REAL WORLD, so they have to go online and search for people they will probably never meet face to face. To me that’s sad. I don’t feel like I have to describe myself and advertise who I am on the web to get friends. I have plenty already. But I’ll leave you to yours and let you get back to your Friendster account. Have lots of fun.
Haha…. I just meant that people on Friendster, it seems to me, feel like they aren’t effective enough in the REAL WORLD, so they have to go online and search for people they will probably never meet face to face. To me that’s sad. I don’t feel like I have to describe myself and advertise who I am on the web to get friends. I have plenty already. But I’ll leave you to yours and let you get back to your Friendster account. Have lots of fun.
Haha…. I just meant that people on Friendster, it seems to me, feel like they aren’t effective enough in the REAL WORLD, so they have to go online and search for people they will probably never meet face to face. To me that’s sad. I don’t feel like I have to describe myself and advertise who I am on the web to get friends. I have plenty already. But I’ll leave you to yours and let you get back to your Friendster account. Have lots of fun.
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Orkut is flawed without having ways to moderate who posts to groups and with friend of friends email being revealed. By the way I am a gay dork named se7en aka christian A. william tell aka david walker is my gay lover
As much as i hate friendster, i still use the service, theres a good and bad side to everything, its ying and yang. I use friendster to keep in contact with my friends that i already have offline interaction with, not everyone just talks to their friends online you know. If i had the time, money and resources, i’d talk to my friends in person as much as i could, but given todays society and its demands, distractions, etc. i cannot afford that, sometimes its either spend 3.50 to take the train to visit my friend or just log into AIM and talk to them for awhile. How come i don’t see anyone here complain about phones, same fucking deal, but then again, we all use phones don’t we. I bet everyone here owns a cell phone, probably. So as much as you guys hate friendster, maybe you should be looking fromt the outside in instead on from the inside out.
What the fuck is this advertising shit, go fuck yourself somewhere else you marketing assholes!!!
What the fuck is this advertising shit, go fuck yourself somewhere else you advertising assholes!!!
Friendster will FAIL. Utterly useless and a waste of time.
Too bad… you guys got no “image”. I have no love for Friendster myself and see it a plain waste of time, but a fad’s a fad, and it’s a money-making one. People such as all of you are faceless nobody’s who wishes they could be somebody with “image”. There are 3 kinds of people: the one who make things happen, the one who waits for things to happen, and the one who doesn’t know what’s happening. You guys fall other none of the 3, but in a special category that would be close to an amoeba. *sigh*
GOD DAMN!! I hate these fucking advertisments. This is what is killing our nation, these damn souless advertisements, you see them everywhere. Whoever is posting these stupid advertisements, you are going to hell where the other people get rapped in the ass by marketing execs.