How To Make Your Friends Call You More

B0bReader writes, "Simply sign up to something called jajah (a VOIP service that connects real telephones) using your friend's number (mobiles included), then log in and dial your own number. Your friend's phone will ring and after they hear a brief 'Jajah is connecting your call' they will be calling you and incur all charges. As an added bonus you will quite probably receive your friend's latest voice-mail message as your own (at least on Irish networks), which you may or may not wish to hear. There is even a Jajah Firefox extension — which at the time of writing is the Firefox featured add-on — so you can do it right from your browser. This is about the best example of a bad idea, with terrible implementation, that I have seen all day. And with the wonderful publicity the Firefox page offers it should reach a wide audience in no time."

Comments

Drinkdrink

[eldavojohn]

The makers of Jajah are hoping that it is as popular as Drinkdrink. Drinkdrink worked where you simply signed up using your friend's credit card number, then logged in and ordered booze. Your friend would receive the bill and then they would hear a brief 'Your friend is drinking your alcohol.' They would usually be calling you and rushing to find you. As an added bonus you could quite probably receive a specialized form of your friend's affection (at least in Irish cities), which you may or may not wish to experience.

Irish police are still investigating any correlation between the popularity of Drinkdrink and a sudden spike in Irish homicides where in most cases the victim new their assailant prior to the fatal encounter. Similar incidents are on the rise--possibly due to Jajah.

Seriously, if I tried this on one of my friends, not even a surgeon would be able to locate my cell phone.

Hey, this is Slashdot

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Instead of "How To Make Your Friends Call You More", we need "How To Make Friends".

Re:Hey, this is Slashdot

[c_forq]

When I first read this I thought it was a joke, but maybe this is what you are looking for:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Friends

Re:Hey, this is Slashdot

[Iron Condor]

What are those "friends" you speak of?

Re:Hey, this is Slashdot

[The One and Only]

Oh, that's easy. In your class declaration you just put:

friend foo (bar)

where "foo" is a function that's outside of the class in question. Of course, the friend can't call you, because it's a friend of the class, not any of its methods.

Re:Hey, this is Slashdot

[MorePower]

What great advice:
Step 1: Decide what kind of friends you want and make a plan to make these types of friends....

So to make friends, my first step is to figure out a plan for how to make friend. Gee thanks, if I knew how to do that I would already be able to make friends on my own.

Next WikiHow: How to get rich
Step 1: Decide how much money you want to have and make a plan for how to get it....

I can prevent this happening to me

[Nasajin]

I'll just get rid of all my friends.

Re:I can prevent this happening to me

[mangledspine]

You must be new here.

Woosh!

[bcat24]

Joke: -===>
You:  O
      >-<
       |
      / \

Re:Woosh!

[SocialEngineer]

/. Comment System: -===>
You:                 O
                    >-<
                     |
                    / \

Re:Woosh!

[uncle_riley]

Does that stickman have four arms or just claws instead of hands?

Is that a Firefox plugin?

[EmbeddedJanitor]

I've searched Google already.

Re:Wow, what a ridiculously bad idea.

[Khakionion]

"How about texting them?"
Shit yeah, I be textin' my ass off. Bitches love textin'. Matter of fact, I also be textin' my weed man, too, cause, you know, he don't like to be on the phone, so I text 'im!

I know...

[NetCow]

Assuming this is true - well, I've always felt I should become friends with Darl McBride...

Re:Stupidity must be contagious ...

[majoritywhip]

I can't remember who said it: If you took the 10 smartest people in the world, put them in a room and asked them to invent the dumbest thing in the world, they would never invent anything as dumb as astrology" (or something like that). But they might come up with something this dumb

Re:WRONG!

[slughead]

Hey Jackass have you ever used Jahjah? The call is _free_ for both sides. Are you a shill for some competitor? How does this shit get on slashdot unverified?

By raffle.

Re:Not worthless for what it's meant to do.

[G_Sus2019]

Its also perfect for revenge. I just used it to connect someone who stole my copy of Rushmore to various gay phone sex lines. Watching the animation as it went from "Pick up your phone" to "Dialling the other number" to "Connected" made my heart smile.

Exes

[Joebert]

This has Ex-Girlfriends written all over it.

Best way to get you friends to call you More

[brusk]

Be descended from this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More.

I'm thinking claws

[BeeBeard]

I for one welcome our tiny, non-joke-getting lobster stick men overlords!

Re:I'm thinking claws

[SeaFox]

You know, in Soviet Russia, the joke gets you.

The Answer

[Quantam]

is in basic C++: A friend is somebody that has access to your private parts

Let that be a lesson in structured design

[Moraelin]

If someone forced a collect call on me with no more warning than "someone is connecting your call", I _might_ call free() or delete() on their private parts.

And this, kids, is why you should use getters and (if needed) setters instead of making an Orkut-inspired design where everyone is "friends" with everyone they ever heard of. If anyone needs your private parts, they can ask nicely and you can give it to them in a civilized manner.

Criminal

[B0bReader]

I never paid for any kind of voip credits, yet so far today I have:

1. Made most of my former friends call me twice.

2. Listened to the rest of my former friends' personal voice-mails (because their phones were turned off when they "called me" so this is only fair, right?).

3. Gotten my parents talking to each other after so many years (although my Father wasn't best pleased that he had to pay for the call).