Chatter Of The Squirrel

Friendster

February 26, 2007 on 10:40 pm | In Me! |

Created a Friendster account more than 4 years ago.  But never bothered with it much except to see photos that some friends share. After that, I only log on once every few months to see if anyone showed any interest in making friends with me.

The answer to that, was deafening.

Wallowed below a dozen friends for 4 years. But so what, the website is sluggish, and I doubted anyone really bothered with it.

Then last night, on a whim I tried out this fancy new feature it had. It could pull all the email addresses in my GMail account, and run a search on every one of them to see if they’ve got Friendster accounts.

Cool.

I gave it a go, and it proceeded to pull everyone who’s ever emailed me, and everyone I’ve ever written to. Very fast. Very convenient. Just needed to spend a few minutes to filter out the business correspondences and such, and I’ve sent off almost 2 dozen new friend requests.

And in 24hrs, the number of friends I’ve got in my Friendster nearly doubled.

Cool.

It really tells me a thing or two about these guys. So free…

And so what if I’ve got more friends on my Friendster now?

Well, it’s nice to see the photos that they’ve shared online.

But it’s even more fun to poke into my friends’ friends list. Identifying the girls that they’ve had crushes on, which they’ve shared in casual conversation but never introduced.

And it’s nice to see that I’ve got more than a score of friends.

It’s still sad. But one learns to take what comfort one can find.