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friendster shit
2003-12-01
I don't want to be a part of Friendster.
That comment may irk and induce hate messages all over, but I have to say something about it.
Where I am located everyone who probably could comprehend the internet with "cool" is part of the damn network. Since my art college has but a fewer student population, I think almost everyone is a member - I've received many invites from the mailing list already. Everyone is literally talking about it in school: about linking this person, the person's friend, and the person's friend's friends, etcetera.
I am sick of all this Friendster shit, because it is becoming too much redundant to me. Or maybe, for a simple reason that it does not work for me.
I am an anti-social kid with no social skills. What would Friendster do to me? To start off, I don't have any friends, in one sense of the word or another. Sure, you may argue that I keep some, but do I want to connect to them in every aspect, in everything I do? Jesus, I just want them to talk and understand me. Why would I be interested in knowing their other friends, which I would not even know?
So you will argue, it's just a database of sorts, a list of... friends. Well, I have a pen and paper, tell me your name and let's get on with it. Like I could do better in a scrapbook. I could not really understand how this process would represent you and your friends in the web world. Build a more creative website, goddamit!
Then you will argue, that this is for the sake of actually making friends. Question: why the hell would I be desperate in making friends with people I don't know personally, let alone their guts? Couldn't I just befriend, say, that quiet next-door neighbor, or someone else mindless of the ISP and that image in a JPEG?
I think this Friendster phenomenon would be just a fad. Another channel for these "oh-I'm-sooo-kewwl" people to strut their phoniness. Friendship is not about coolness. It's about making a real-as-flesh bond with another person, keeping it, and nourishing it.
-- this rant is for Dastard, whom I like. Stop pestering me.
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written by andreavenge + catc