{"id":677,"date":"2003-07-12T11:56:30","date_gmt":"2003-07-12T11:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/07\/12\/friendster_power_games.html"},"modified":"2003-07-12T11:56:30","modified_gmt":"2003-07-12T11:56:30","slug":"friendster_power_games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/07\/12\/friendster_power_games.html","title":{"rendered":"Friendster Power Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanvangieson.com\/\">Jonathan Van Gieson<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanvangieson.com\/archives\/2003_06.shtml#000252\">list of Friendster Power Games<\/a> that is just wonderful:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Top Friendster Power Games:<\/p>\n<p>The Pre-Rejection<br \/>\nYou just signed up for Friendster, and you notice that I&#8217;ve been using it for a month, and didn&#8217;t invite you. Perhaps we&#8217;re just not as close as you thought we were.<\/p>\n<p>The Delayed Approval<br \/>\nYou can see by my profile that I was active yesterday. You sent me a &#8220;new friend request&#8221; three days ago. I haven&#8217;t approved it. Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m waiting to see if anyone worthwhile signs up to be your friend before I commit to having you on my friends list.<\/p>\n<p>The Unreciprocated Testimonial<br \/>\nYou wrote me a very nice testimonial three weeks ago, yet your page still displays the pathetic notice: &#8220;No testimonials yet. You can add the first!&#8221; Gosh, it looks like you&#8217;re more interested in me than I am in you, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican Standoff<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re one of John Smith&#8217;s friends. I&#8217;m one of John Smith&#8217;s friends. We know each other, we can clearly see each other in the &#8220;John Smith&#8217;s Friends&#8221; page, and yet neither of us has attempted to add the other as a friend. It&#8217;s a battle for status, and the first person to send the new friend request will forever be the loser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Van Gieson has a list of Friendster Power Games that is just wonderful: Top Friendster Power Games: The Pre-Rejection You just signed up for Friendster, and you notice that I&#8217;ve been using it for a month, and didn&#8217;t invite you. Perhaps we&#8217;re just not as close as you thought we were. The Delayed Approval [&hellip;]<\/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-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}