Gothamist dissects Friendster messages and gives you advice on how to write an appropriate Friendster message. [This comes from the same blogger who previously articulated other Friendster social protocols]
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Single White Female sick of the Seattle scene flirts with Friendster.com
Single White Female sick of the Seattle scene flirts with Friendster.com (Boo Davis – Seattle Times)
This is an anecdotal article reflecting on personal experiences with Friendster.
T-Shirts of random Friendster users
Glossosaurus wants to create T-Shirts of the Friendster profiles of random users.
[More coverage and discussion at boingboing]
Friendster on NPR
Friend of a Friend was a panel on NPR with Jonathan Abrams (Friendster), Howard Rheingold (Smart Mobs), and Duncan Watts (researcher).
fakester genocide
In one of the responses to my survey today, i received a great note from someone bemoaning the “fakester genocide” on Friendster. S/he argued that it was through these fakesters that s/he found known (old and current) friends or familiar strangers. For hir, the primary use of Friendster is to connect with actual friends (and dating happens to be a fun side element).
Aside from the clear usage model for this user, i love the term “fakester genocide” in reference to the deletion of artificially generated characters. In my head, this truly conjures up an image of a child horrified of the genocide of the imaginary people, or the stuff animals.
Overconnected: On Friendster, It’s Not Who You Know, It’s How Many
Overconnected: On Friendster, It’s Not Who You Know, It’s How Many (Sean Nealson in The Stranger)
“Friendster is just another piece of driftwood in the weblog ocean, akin to the countless personality tests, polls, and petitions that are wildly popular one day, spread like viruses, and are soon forgotten, quickly supplanted by the next meme of the moment”
Sean Nealson’s negatively slanted Friendster article focuses on the efforts to amass friends and search for acquaintenances. He compares LiveJournal to Friendster and provides endless fun quotes:
“Where a blog offers the chance to expand on one’s self, Friendster reduces the self to a trading card, suitable for collection.”
Friendster: “the newest trend in online extroversion, like LiveJournal for grownups” … “this is a pyramid scheme without the money, or the advancement, or the pyramid, for that matter. It’s just a scheme”
A Little Help From Friends of Friends
A Little Help From Friends of Friends is an older article referencing Cynthia Typaldos’ Software Product Marketing eGroup. [Note that Mark Granovetter is on their board and that they are consciously focused on capitalizing on weak ties as a mechanism to connect people to jobs.]
Making Friendsters in High Places
[from the connected selves blog]
Wired ran an article today about Making Friendsters in High Places, including quotes by moi (and referencing the eBay phenomenon and Ross’ comparison of different tools).
I must say that i think it’s fascinating to hear people reference each other as Friendsters. “Oh, you’re danah’s Friendster.” This shows how it is not really a listing of your friends, but some other not-entirely-defined set of people that you sorta know in some context or another.
friendster or foe?
Time Out New York: “Online social network Friendster.com just may be the most annoyingly cliquey and trendy club since Moomba” (with quotes by moi)
Six Degrees of Procrastination
Six Degrees of Procrastination: Why is everyone you know on Friendster?
By Douglas Wolk (Slate @ MSN)