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February 06, 2004
Orkutrification
I'm spending some time this week hooking up my network of friends at Orkut. I hate words that I never hear and only read. What's an orkut anyway? I'm very pleased with it so far, primarily because people are actually responding. I've hooked up about 16 people so far with another 35 in the queue.
Things like Orkut get me all introspective about the nature and frequency of my friendships. I do look at the popular people and wonder what it is that has gone wrong such that I don't have such a circle of people to float around in. My friends are all dispersed and I hardly ever see them, so I would expect that they'd connect over the net. But the emails remain unanswered. Only my network friends respond - the people whose voices and style of walking I don't even know because I've never seen them in person.
Where do I stop? Should I put just the people I think make me look like I have impressive friends? Should I try to be friends with people I think are impressive? Should I invite my family? How about business associates?
There are circles of friends. There are the Brainstorms folks, the blog folks, my boys, the SCAA folks, the Newsavvana folks. Do I really know anyone?
All this just gives me a headache.
Posted by mbowen at February 6, 2004 07:36 AM
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We're living in an era where many people have just as many "friends" online as they do in real life. Seems that this form of networking might be one way to bring these two segments together in order to form a more interesting circle.
Whether it will improve communications among friends and/or create a more dynamic social circle remains to be seen. I think in the long run it will be mutually beneficial on some levels.
Posted by: Ray at February 6, 2004 10:40 AM