I connected to Friendster several months ago. Many of my friends from LambdaMOO and LiveJournal were on, and my network grew quite rapidly. I was hoping that it would be some interesting variante of sixdegrees.com Unfortunately, I didn't find anything useful in friendster; I had better ways to communicate with my network, so I pretty much left it idle. That was, until someone from the Howard Dean campaign mentioned friendster. I reconnected to find that my network was upto around 100K people. I found that 'Howard Dean' is in the network. I added him and I now have 165K friends. (As a side comment, 'God' is also on Friendster, and I believe that 'God' is a friend of a friend of mine. Actually searching for God, you find several choices. One of my more interesting connections to 'God' is Me <==> Howard <==> dubya <==> Jesus <==> God ) That said, I still haven't found any good use for it, and as it has grown it has gotten much more unreliable. Aldon --- jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
I just logged into Friendster again and through Matt Stoner, I now have close to 5000 people in that social network, though i know few of them. Matt of course thus would have all of those minus one, because I was somewhat uninterested in Friendster until i saw this new number. So thus I'm wondering if any other members of AoIR have played with Friendster and what have they found? Specifically, I'm wondering if this probably fits the old sixdegrees.com cloud system, and whether the core and periphery of those clouds are well defined, as they were at sixdegrees.com
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