{"id":555,"date":"2003-05-10T02:22:51","date_gmt":"2003-05-10T02:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/05\/10\/how_do_you_use_friendster.html"},"modified":"2003-05-10T02:22:51","modified_gmt":"2003-05-10T02:22:51","slug":"how_do_you_use_friendster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/05\/10\/how_do_you_use_friendster.html","title":{"rendered":"how do you use Friendster?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve really enjoyed watching the Friendster<\/a> meme percolate. I’m trying to get a grasp on how people are using it, why they like it, what they’re doing with it and as many anecdotes as possible that will help me grasp usage. Free free to send me your random thoughts or perhaps answer some of the questions that are floating in my head<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[updated 05\/12] Good public commentaries on Friendster:
\n– Adam Greenfield<\/a>
\n– An addict’s perspective<\/a> by Terbo Ted<\/p>\n

[updated 6\/4] vanderwal on Ryze vs. Friendster<\/a><\/p>\n


\nQuestions include:<\/p>\n

1) How accurately does your profile reflect your identity? In what ways? What isn’t reflected?<\/p>\n

2) Are a cluster of your friends all on Friendster? Is this a particular subculture? Do you direct your profile at them and people like them?<\/p>\n

3) Are some of your friends from distinctly separate communities of yours? Do you want them to meet each other? Are there groups that you don’t want to intersect?<\/p>\n

4) Are there people that you know that you would not want on Friendster? What role do they have to you (like mom, boss, ex, etc.)? Why wouldn’t you want them there?<\/p>\n

5) Do you ever say no to someone’s friend request? Why? How does this make you feel?<\/p>\n

6) How motivated are you to have large #s of friends? What do you do to acquire them? What about testimonials? What motivates you to leave a testimonial for someone?<\/p>\n

7) How do you change your profile dependent on others’ profile? What motivates you to change your profile or your picture?<\/p>\n

8) How do you surf Friendster? Through the Gallery? By clicking on your friends’ friends? Do you usually surf to find someone or out of curiousity? Do you limit people in your searches? Do you surf to people’s websites when listed in their profile?<\/p>\n

9) When you message people, is it usually because you are interested in dating them? What other reasons do you contact people?<\/p>\n

10) What’s the appeal of “fake” characters? Of “fake” testimonials? Why do you love\/hate them? Do you report them?<\/p>\n

11) What do you think Friendster is most useful for? How do you like to use it? What would you like to do with it?<\/p>\n

12) Do you talk about Friendster in real life? Do you share stories about Friendster experiences? What kinds of stories do you share?<\/p>\n

13) Are you addicted to Friendster? How? Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve really enjoyed watching the Friendster meme percolate. I’m trying to get a grasp on how people are using it, why they like it, what they’re doing with it and as many anecdotes as possible that will help me grasp usage. Free free to send me your random thoughts or perhaps answer some of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}