More reasons we PWN
There are so many social networking sites out there now, that we don't even bother trying to keep up anymore. And the one that started it all - well, with it constantly being down or running at a snails pace, and their zealous deletion of any profile that wasn't "real", who even cares about that site these days. There are so many others that have expanded on the basic idea and made it much more user friendly with more photocentric features, blogs, forums, chat and even CSS customization of user pages. (Although, MySpace has gone a bit too far on that front and the result has been some of the the most hideous, browser-crashing profile pages on the planet)
In apparent response to the abandonment of our profile, this ego stroking message appeared in our inbox:
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You're our
favorite subscriber!
Seriously. I know we here at
Friendster shouldn't play favorites, and our chief operating officer (he's
the old
guy in the office) told us not to do this, but seriously, you
just totally rock. The way you reconnect with old friends. The way you've
figured out just
how small and interconnected the world really is. The
way you discovered people with the same interests as you. We suspect
you've even gotten a date out of
Friendster, or that if you didn't, you
could have if you needed to. Easy. With one of those three suspiciously
hot people who keep popping up right
above your friends list. For other
people, we just use those pictures as cruel, aspirational temptation. But
for you, they're totally getable.
We even made Friendster much
faster just for you. But hey - don't tell anyone we told you all of this.
That old guy in the office will just
start lecturing us again and
pulling out charts and graphs and PowerPoint displays. He's such a loser.
Thanks,
Your friends at Friendster
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One in Two million
You have received a Friendster message from M**k at
2/27/04 2:44 AM.
Date: February 27, 2004 2:44 AM
Subject: hi
Message: i like ur styleand ur sexy pics
french guy married interested in affair..am in san
francisco,,if interested let me know
m**k
That sucking sound you hear...
Oh how vacuous my little online life has become when this is considered a major accomplishment.
Still... not bad for only 58 'friends'...
