My name is danah boyd and I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visting Researcher at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I spend 1/3 of my time in Cambridge, MA, 1/3 in New York, NY, and 1/3 in the air. Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking.

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The Year in Phrases: Friendster

While i don’t have a lot of respect for Fox News, i’m quite humored that they included metrosexuals and Friendster in their year in phrases:

Friendster: Like an online dating site … but for friends. The site allows people to form networks with their friends, their friends’ friends and so on, and is largely used as a hook-up vehicle for single, urban 20-somethings. Several celebrities have confessed to being Friendster addicts, and the site was so popular this year that it was often impossible to sign on.

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December 25th, 2003 | Category: yasns | Comments are closed

1 comment to The Year in Phrases: Friendster

  • Ali Karim Bey
    December 30th, 2003 at 12:26 pm

    I do not have a lot of respect for Liberal-Hypocrites who act like three monkeys (deaf,blind,dumb) when their Dean Master is caught flip-floping (e.g., Saddam overthrow, Discovering Jesus for the first time, closed VT energy meetings).

    I have yet to meet/find/discover/know a liberal who ain’t a low-down hypocrite.

    PS: I avoid NYT and Fox News. One is biased against the Right and other against the Left. For progressive independents, blogs provide the only true objective source – multiple reads on plentiful perspectives.

    Ali Karim Bey