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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. Yeah, but how accurate are the numbers? by The+Angry+Mick · · Score: 4, Informative

    While I see some great potential for these types of sites, I have to wonder about the strength or veracity of the social networks they claim to foster. For example, Orkut tells me I'm now "connected" to over 150,000 folks, even though I only have three "friends" added to my profile. Just because I joined to the Debian/Apache/PHP/EFF/Dachshund forums doesn't mean all the other members even know of my existence, or care.

    Still though, it does do wonders for the ego . . .

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