Friendster = Electric crack

harvest168 · Outlaw Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 142 City: PDX

I know Pat talked about this back in July, but man, now it's really blowin' up (it was on ABC news for christ's sake)! Aliance mag. put it best when they called it "Electriccrack.com". Upon my initial invite, I thought "no way! I ain't no internet loser!!" but upon further examination, I am an internet loser stuck in a cube farm surfing all day between work responsibilities, so why not? Is anyone else addicted to this shiz? With over 2 million users, I know some of you have to be.

www.friendster.com

BillJ · Posted: Oct 22, 2003 11:26 am Post subject:

Me and one of my friends were just talking about it yesterday. I haven't checked it out, which surprised him.

So how many people are you connected to?

Premier135Chick · Guest

I am on it but haven't caught the addiction.

Maestro · Posted: Oct 22, 2003 11:31 am Post subject:

Never even heard of it!

harvest168 · Outlaw Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 142 City: PDX

BillJ, I'm connected to just over 135K people, which isn't a lot compared to some other users. I'm connected to three neighbors who I don't even "know", which is really strange.

Premier135Chick · Guest

I have seen two different write ups about friendster this month in various magazines.

Chales · Guest

What is it?

Rocko · Posted: Oct 22, 2003 11:56 am Post subject:

never heard of it either.

BillJ · Posted: Oct 22, 2003 12:32 pm Post subject:

Are you familiar with the idea of six degrees of separation? This is the electronic version, where you enter information about yourself and invite your friends to sign up, they invite their friends, etc. The idea is that you can then find people that you are connected to through a layer of friends.

Tyler T · Posted: Oct 22, 2003 12:39 pm Post subject:

what the heck is this place? ive never even heard of it

Rocko · Posted: Oct 22, 2003 12:43 pm Post subject:

ahhhhhhhhhh, similar to the kevin bacon game right?

Jello John · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 1936

Grouch · Posted: Oct 22, 2003 1:38 pm Post subject:

I logged into it, but thats as far as i have gotten so far. Laughing

Dpierce37 · Ladies Man Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 7659 City: Austin

me too...seems boring....

harvest168 · Outlaw Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 142 City: PDX

It really starts to get good once you have a base of 10 to 20 "friends". I've found friends I went to college with, pro snowboarders, and (cough, cough) ex-girlfriends that I didn't know were in the network. Sh#t, Chris Heavener from Alliance mag. is on it!

salmon_tacos · Posted: Oct 22, 2003 2:27 pm Post subject:

I think most of the famous people on there are fake. That's the main problem with Friendster. I'm connected to a fake version of just about every celebrity on the planet.

I haven't checked it for months. Once you get a couple hundred thousand people in your network and half of them seem fake, you kind of lose interest.

Tall Girl · Outlaw Joined: 23 Aug 2003 Posts: 185 City: Tampa

I think Friendster's great - I've hooked up with tons of people from my past that I never thought I'd talk to again. There are a lot of fakes, but some of them are pretty funny...

Lynsey · Posted: Oct 22, 2003 5:31 pm Post subject:

I'm on Friendster but haven't checked it in a while. It's interesting though, two of my friends who don't know each other kept bugging me to sign up.

Chales · Guest

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

Premier135Chick · Guest

scott a · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 9810

Premier135Chick, its ok, some people just arent that popular Smile

Premier135Chick · Guest

I guess that means I am one of them. Sad

Son of a ......
Thanks for reminding me Scott, sheesh!

timmy · Addict Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 882 City: Jupiter, FL

it would be a LOT better if their servers weren't so slow.

Dpierce37 · Ladies Man Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 7659 City: Austin

I have a bunch of friends..but I am the only technically gifted (Internet Dork) of them. I will be shunned in the community if I ask my friends to join.... Rolling Eyes

I already get stuff from them after I tell them about the cool peeps I have met on here!

MissJade · Soul Rider Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 486 City: Austin, TX

I wanna try it. Does someone have to add me to join?

Dpierce37 · Ladies Man Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 7659 City: Austin

I will add you, I just dont know how Puppy Eyes

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

wow!!!

Friendster sounds fun!! Rolling Eyes

Premier135Chick · Guest

Yeah the servers suck. I had two new requests for friends this morning and I can't add them for some dayum reason.....Takes forever to view someone's profile.

Grouch · Posted: Oct 23, 2003 9:55 am Post subject:

WB.COM is my friendster.

I have met more cool people here than through the dating website I am on. Whoops nevermind you didnt read that last part. Laughing

somepunk22 · Addict Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 898 City: Minnesota

ummm and if I don't know anyone on friendster? this sucks.

token · Guest

I met my last two girlfriends on friendster.

harvest168 · Outlaw Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 142 City: PDX

I think this is just a good way to waste time if you're in front of a computer all day. Just like wb.com but w/o the wakeboards. And I'll admit, I don't mind looking at pics of women to waste time. But yeah, they do need to upgrade the servers.