January 27, 2004

Wanted: personal social network coordinator

Jason Kottke posted a fake ad on Craigslist that perfectly encapsulates the sentiment i have towards the YASNS phenonmenon these days.

Wanted: personal social network coordinator
Reply to: job-23123114@craigslist.org
Date: 2004-01-25, 10:33PM EST

Permanent full-time position for a personal social coordinator for a New York-based web designer.

Your primary responsibility will be managing my accounts with various online social networking sites including, but not limited to, Friendster, LinkedIn, Tribe, Orkut, Ryze, Spoke, ZeroDegrees, Ecademy, RealContacts, Ringo, MySpace, Yafro, EveryonesConnected, Friendzy, FriendSurfer, Tickle, Evite, Plaxo, Squiby, and WhizSpark.

Specific duties include:

- approving or rejecting invitations of friendship

- managing a database of usernames and passwords for each of the social networking sites

- sending out friendship invitations

- keeping my social network synchronized; that is, invite friends from one social networking site to be friends in all of the other social networking sites

- handling requests by friends to be introduced to another friend that they might not know

- keeping track of my current likes & dislikes and updating my personal information within each service accordingly

- writing testimonials for friends

- various "damage control" functions when rebuffed "non-friends" become upset due to non-acceptance of their offers of friendship

- continually browsing my friends' 1st and 2nd degrees for potential new friends and business contacts

- participating on any of the sites' message boards on my behalf

Future duties may include discouraging companies and individuals from starting new social networking sites so that additional staff won't be necessary in the future. Past employment as a bouncer, "heavy", or hired goon may be helpful in this regard.

Benefits include addition as my friend in all of the social networking sites I belong to.

Compensation:
Telecommuting is ok.
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
Reposting this message elsewhere is NOT OK.
this is in or around Manhattan

Category: yasns

Posted by zephoria at January 27, 2004 10:53 PM | TrackBack