Friendster

Ok i admit it i've gone and done it... (no i didn't put an order for the new G5 iMac!)

I finally got round to signing up for Friendster last week, i had originally thought about joining it last October, but curiosity finally got the better of me....

Thoughts...? Well i used to use sixdegrees.com about 5 years ago, and it was based on the notion, actually a theory, that everyone in the world is connected to each other by just 6 people.. Its a great theory, but seemingly impossible mathematically or physically to prove, but with the internet these type of social networks are quite easy to prove and validate. Anyhow the website disappeared all of a sudden around 2000...

So it was with this thinking, and with a more net-savvy population, i stumbled onto Friendster.

So heres the things you can do...
- create a profile of your 'interests', 'jobs', 'books', 'movies', 't.v. programmes', 'about me', 'who id like to meet'...
- stick mugshots of yourself up on the site..
- invite your friends to join in (and do the same).
- create social networks (1st degree, 2nd degree, 3rd degree ) of associations..
- search people against any-one of the above profiles..

yeah... and?
Well i dont know what all the fuss is..... it probably would be more fun... if everyone i knew used friendster... and then it would be fun to see how this six-degrees theory would work...

If i want to find people who read the same books or listen to same music or watch the same movies... theres a much more powerful database of that information available... its called amazon... thats if they decide they want to go down the social computing route...