Social Software Update, or Check Out the Open Marriages

Something must be wrong with Friendster, because it reports that I’ve got 65,896 people in my personal online network. That can’t be correct, as I don’t even have 6.5896 people in my real-world network.

I was rooting around my Friendster network, and discovered this interesting fact: there are 3054 people ((291 of them in Vancouver)) in my network who report that they are living in an open marriage. That’s 4.6%–surely that’s above the national average. I imagine social software network demographics tend toward the young and liberal.

Incidentally, if you want to extend my Friendster empire even further, you can reach me with this email address: darren at darrenbarefoot dot com.

Meanwhile, I also checked out People Link, the latest network to get some play. They trade in FOAF (friend of a friend) files, which are XML files used to describe you, your site and your connection to others. Here’s my hastily created FOAF file.

1 comment

  1. intersting! i have found that many of my *friendsters* report they are about 80 years old and in open marriages as well!

    lonley old me, i am just there “to help” with a measly 20 or so *friends*.

    if you’d like to see my sad profile: martinizero at yahoo dot com

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