a looking-glass book

social ideas

the concept of networks, of strange connections and neural nodes. a friend of mine convinced me to sign up on friendster. now many people have already chided me for doing this, for its passe-ness, for its general boringness.

all of this is true. but.

the social nodes are interesting to me. how many connections i can get and how far away (virtually and physically) i can go. i have found people linked to me by only 2 or 3 dregrees from all over the united states.

does it matter? not really.

but the idea of being a certain amount of steps away from someone else, the idea of this interconnectivity and the ideas that type of user-filled network could be used for are all very interesteding to me.

yes, other sites have done this. yes, its tired. but its the new kid on the block. im interested in seeing how we can push this model.

(another place to look is buddyzoo.)