Why did you send me a "friend request" today? Was it a precursor to a wonderful relationship that will transcend materialism, years and distance, or did you just click the wrong person by mistake?
It was me partaking in a series of newfangled "Web 2.0" social networking phenomena, one of which involves us declaring our friendship on a public forum and exchanging messages that others can read. I can assure you that, like any of the other social networking sites, our friendship shall continue to remain meaningless and unfruitful, barring the occasional lottery winning I send your way.
I was pondering the significance of the new "friends" option in VBF. It was a very short exercise, as I couldn't see any particular reason for doing so. However, now that this thread is poised to reveal the deep significance of this addition, let me put the question out there quite plainly: What's the point? What benefits/changes are seen from adding a friend?
I don't use any of those social networking things, so I can't relate to some similar experience.
I was pondering the significance of the new "friends" option in VBF. It was a very short exercise, as I couldn't see any particular reason for doing so. However, now that this thread is poised to reveal the deep significance of this addition, let me put the question out there quite plainly: What's the point? What benefits/changes are seen from adding a friend?
I don't use any of those social networking things, so I can't relate to some similar experience.
I think it'll die out or just evolve into a chit-chat away from chit-chat or into something else as a tool. The 'profile page' may also serve as a place for n00bs to send us "Please solve my thread plz" links.
The complex pseudo-platonic relationship between Mendhak and me is often the fashionable case study for contemporary psychological analyses. It's cos him a frog and all that jazz.
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I really feel for poor BoardTracker. He hasn't made any friends. Maybe one of you will have pity on him.
Last edited by EntityX; Apr 4th, 2010 at 07:27 AM.
Make as many mistakes as you can as quickly as you can. We want to make sure that we make a great enough number of mistakes in a given amount of time so that we can be successful.
"Persistence is the magic of success." Paramahansa Yogananda
We'll see if BoardTracker accepts my offering of friendship.
Last edited by EntityX; Apr 4th, 2010 at 07:27 AM.
Make as many mistakes as you can as quickly as you can. We want to make sure that we make a great enough number of mistakes in a given amount of time so that we can be successful.
"Persistence is the magic of success." Paramahansa Yogananda
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