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Social Networking in the Digital Age

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the orkut-til-ya-bust dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It used to be if you wanted to win more friends, influence more people or make more money, you bought one of those self-improvement tomes and tried to pump up your personality. These days, all you have to do is go online and join a "social networking" site. The pumping will be done for you."

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  1. IRC by scumbucket · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    IRC is my social network. Forget that orkut crap.....

    #slashdot is my home-away-from home.

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  2. OH blah by LooseChanj · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Friendster was cool for what, two weeks? I haven't tried any of the others, but I think this about sums up the concept: "it's lj without the 'j'".

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  3. Re:Orkut? by Trigun · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Orkut is an elitist group that you have to know a member of in order to join. It's like the freemasons or the DNC.

  4. This is so over by Animats · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Social networking" sites are so over. Look who wrote the article: "Philipp Harper is a free-lance writer who lives in south Georgia." It's like online dating, which was really cool for about six months in 1998.