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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. Orkut? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What? No orkut link, but an MSN link instead? On Slashdot? Did hell freeze over or something? :)

    1. Re:Orkut? by flewp · · Score: 1, Funny

      It must be, what with RMS moving in the William Gates building at MIT....

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    2. Re:Orkut? by Chris+Burke · · Score: 2, Funny

      We need a Slashdot Orkut whore!

      Why not cut out the middleman?

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  2. What? by ziondreams · · Score: 4, Funny


    I always used to look in the mirror and say "...because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dogonnit, people like me!"

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  3. "Pumping"? by Mattintosh · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ummm... Social networking? Pumping? Joining a site? Making money? Am I the only one thinking about pr0n here?

  4. Help! Looking for work! by qualico · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm looking for work. Does that mean my social net, Slashdot, will come to my rescue?

  5. Re:IRC by dan+dan+the+dna+man · · Score: 4, Funny

    Orkut has pics of hot geek chicks. What more excuse do you need?

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  6. "The pumping will be done for you" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    by your own well-lubricated fingers. (Two for the girls, all five for the boys.)

    Really, isn't what those sites are for?

  7. Re:This may come as a shock to you guys... by graveytrain · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Want to be modded +5: Insightful, garanteed? Say this in your post: "Go ahead, mod me -1: Troll" ... works every time!

    A comment on your tagline... or rather, in addition --

    And don't dare Meta-Moderate those people down, lest you be called UnFair! (Not that I speak from personal experience or anything!)

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  8. Re:IRC by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 4, Funny
    IRC is my social network.

    And this is why, at 35, you are still a virgin.

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  9. Re:No thanks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Damn. First one's female so I clicked "introduce me" and it just said "there was an unexpected problem processing your request". This is as hard work as real life socialising :(

  10. Re:Here's my *funny* answer by absurdist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Personally, I prefer Everclear.

  11. GPG by femto · · Score: 1, Funny

    By any other name it's GNU Privacy Guard and the "web of trust". A verified, accountable network of friends.

  12. Re:Been there, done that... by Unoti · · Score: 3, Funny

    You should ebay your account!

  13. What, I thought that... by rthille · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot was a social network site! I've even got friends here! :-)

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  14. Yup by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 2, Funny
    So by your argument. Blogs should be crashing about now.

    I would expect 80% of bloggers to realize no one is reading their mindless tripe by the end of this year. I mean, how many times can you read -

    Really hard to get out of bed today, Lord of the Rings is so cool, This blog is important...

    ????????

  15. Re:Livejournal is definitely not one of them by ahem · · Score: 2, Funny
    Does anyone else smell a certain lack of self-awareness here:

    1. a closed group of about 15 people
    2. There's none of the "cliquey" things

    Perhaps just an incorrect sense of the word 'clique?'

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  16. My Karma Means People Like Me! by JBMcB · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...snd my XP in in Ultima Online make me one of the wisest people around. ...snd my ngWorldStats in Unreal Tournament makes me one of the worst serial killers in the world.

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