danah boyd | apophenia » a slow death on orkut

My name is danah boyd and I'm a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I live in Boston, MA. 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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a slow death on orkut

Huy Zing’s description of his orkut death is a riot.

During this period, I slowly saw the count of my list of 750+ communities (600 created by me) get halved, then drop by 20 at a time, then slowly 1 by 1 until my list of communities reached 0. Watching the list of my communities slowly drop meant only one thing: impending death at the hand of none other than a human!

3 comments to a slow death on orkut

Sam Ruby

March 5th, 2004 at 7:52 pm

Orkut Death

[via Danah Boyd]
Scott Moore

March 6th, 2004 at 12:41 pm

Should we name this the “Jonathan Abrams Rag” in honor of the founder of this fine art of one-man editorial control?
Mel

March 7th, 2004 at 11:08 am

Huy Zing wear at Cafe Press. The Huy Zing thong is just right for late night social network surfing…

http://www.cafeshops.com/huyzing