Friendster guide to interpreting photos
OK, this is fun. Buttafly has created a Friendster Guide to Interpreting Photos.
That fun piece is in addition to an opinion piece on why one must join Friendster (to find out about how diverse your friends’ friends are). Buttafly understandably misreads the Gallery to be one’s collection of friends’ friends, without realizing that the general population should be available there and that 4 degrees is meaningless. I was talking with someone yesterday about how Friendster has constructed a misreading of degrees by their decision to only present 4 degrees. They chose 4 mostly because of technical reasons, but 4 degrees has no value when you are looking at people. Yet, by noting it as “your network” and giving you a Gallery to look at your network, it’s easy to think it means something. Unfortunately, my “network” consists of everyone from the neo-nazis to the gangstas to the midwestern teens, none of which are actually in my actual network of associates.
