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Social Networking From Your Cell

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the narccissim-gone-wild dept.

A small startup VCEL (Virtual Communication Expression & Lifestyle) has unveiled a new social networking service for cell phones. All you need to do to keep in contact with your friends 24/7 is to create a profile with their website, download a Java application for your cell phone (more than 20 models are supported already), and send an invitation to your buddies. Here we go: you can exchange comments, pictures, plan on activities together, etc. You'd have the same control over your profile either from phone or from web browser. They have a nice Java applet for your page, so you can leave your buddies a voice message right from your computer and so on.

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  1. Terrific by IlliniECE · · Score: 2, Funny

    Splendid! Yet another way to watch my friends leave their accounts idle or away for months at a time.

  2. just what we need... by daddyrief · · Score: 1, Funny

    'Myspace 2.0'

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  3. Oh wow! by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can already see the next gen of this: Cells that let you call your friend and tell them you want to meet!

    Gosh. I'm bouncy.

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    1. Re:Oh wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      ... and send them a blurry pic of your boobs.

      This is the MySpace crowd, after all.

  4. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds great! Now do these "friends" come with the service or are they separate download? Is there torrent?

  5. My_6x6_Space by SsShane · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally a way to stay in touch with all my felonious friends!

  6. A sexual revolution. Part 2 by DigiShaman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sort of, you're closer than you think however. The *Real* next boom in cell phone services is sexual profiling. Follow me for a moment...

    Imagine having everything on your cell phone. Hell, even your genetic profile. On this cell phone, you would have your stated likes and dislikes much like a match.com or eharmony profile. Also, you would have your sexual profile available too. From here, you could walk down the street into a mall or bar. Within movements, your cell phone would vibrate the closer you got to a potential prospect. If you're lucky, you would be fucking your brains out in the next 10 minutes...

    Welcome to the new western sexual revolution. It's coming. Are you ready? Is society ready???

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  7. The other cell... by sloths · · Score: 1, Funny

    I clicked on this RSS feed and from the headline I was thinking it was a social networking sire for prison inmates.

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  8. Re:Let me guess... by badfish99 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's the beauty of Java. Write once, doesn't run anywhere.

  9. In any case... by BrokenHalo · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I were to remain in contact with my friends 24/7, I'm fairly sure they wouldn't remain friends for very long. And they would probably feel likewise about me.

  10. Uhm... by Wienaren · · Score: 2, Funny

    Social networking with a phone? What ELSE is one supposed to do with a phone???

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