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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? :)

  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. 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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  5. "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?

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

    You should ebay your account!