This afternoon I had a horrific experience.
I received an email invitation to join Friendster, the last desperate hold out for dating people online. I suppose it could also be used for other things, like that randy dandy thing called making new friends.
As described by the invitation:
Friendster is an online community that connects people through networks of friends for dating or making new friends.Friendster is for people who are single, people in relationships, and
anyone who wants to make new friends or help their friends meet new people.You can use Friendster to:
* Meet new people to date, through your friends and their friends
* Make new friends
* Help your friends meet new people
Well that's pretty cool, if you like people.
As for me I prefer quiet solace of an empty room, one window please.
Still, it's not fair that people who prefer people should get all the cool web applications. Just because I'm Introverted doesn't mean I don't have needs too.
I have a hunch that I'm not alone.
So for you and me, Joe Goaway, I present Introvertster - The new way to get rid of people.
Join the fray by reading through and commenting at the end.
At last! A way of me leaving any form of social interaction behind!
I've always avoided friends reunited because there is a good reason that the people at my old schools are no longer friends.
Now, if I can stop existing friends from hooking me up with other mates of theirs who I have absoutely no interest in whatsoever... well... it's just one step from me, the Mrs and my daughter alone on an island with a wireless connection!
(I long for that day!)
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
People here at work at wondering
"What the heck is up with Walker this morning?"
That's hilarious, Greg - good job!
Thanks, I had fun making it. Did you guys click around on the site? I'm not sure people know there is more than just the homepage.
I don't know, sounds like a cry for help, Greg.
Greg- That's amazing! The Bjork quote almost had me falling out of my chair.
Very Fine! Can you write a utility to send a virus to people who send you an e-mail inviting you to join Friendster?
Greg reminded me that one of our favorite wedding gifts was a "GO AWAY" door mat. I loved that thing. I was so sad when it fell apart. I need to find another...
People suck. This is perfect! Anti-socialism is the wave of the future.
Greg, I clicked around - the "testimonials" are priceless!
Yes, I too do not like Friendster very much. A lot of people at UCLA started using it and I got around five e-mails asking if I wanted to join. Blocked my address as soon as I could. Long live Introverster.
The "Go Away" doormat was from me!
Then get me a new one. And hurry, my six foot tall gate is not enough to keep the world away.
...Writing a blog and inviting the world into your thoughts probably also won't keep the world away.
My wife and I were overjoyed when we found out our new house had a lockable front gate. This is better!
How about a 6 foot tall wrought iron gate, with GO AWAY lovingly crafted into it?
I reckon this guy could do it!
All the beauty of a lockable gate, with all the pleasure of an angry message...
Awesome! Just another tidbit that I find helpful is the "accidentally" mispelled default "From:" email field. Works quite well actually.
Greg--you rock, man.
you can have the mat and the shirt: http://www.thematking.com/residential/doormats/goaway.htm
grin
Are you interested in a totally new idea?
Dumpster Friendsters is a newly formed west coast social club.
We intend to schedule dumpster diving parties in select large grocery store back lots at various west coast locations, starting early September, or earlier, temperatures permitting.
Meet interesting new people. Share thoughts. Share a meal. Even sin in a bin, if you feel lucky.
Check this site for new information, early next week. Or see our posters, near a supermarket near you.
P.S. Invite a friend. It is an intimate mood-mending setting, but there's always room for one more open-minded, frank, and interesting friend. Also, rumors of co-hosting and mixed Dumpster Friendster events with Insight Seminars cosponsorship are, at present, wholly unfounded. Yet we are open-minded, interested in you as a person, and all options are friendly options.
Heisenberg, that's a great idea and it would probably go over really well in Arkansas.
my only dissapointment is in being unable to actually _join_.
Funny site :)
Reminded me to run some stats on my FOAF aggregator, to look see if the foaf:myersBriggs property was being used. Early results... http://rdfweb.org/mt/foaflog/archives/000056.html
YES!!!!!
Aw, it's just like my cool teeshirts... "Do I look like a people person?" and "If you don't have something nice to say... sit next to me!"
:D
~Deb~ Great site!
Nice
You must be damn free to do all that. Hehehe. If only I could join... oh well...
Introvertster? Cool.
Mitch: I wholeheartedly agree with you.
ps: back off bjork, she is a goddess.
The sign on in my classroom announces that it is a "Troll Zone" which sets a certain mood. I'll have to have it made into a doormat.
Love it! Although I'd point out that introverts don't necessarily dislike other people - they just want to deal with them in measured doses ;-)
There are people on my friendster list that I don't even know...albeit, they are most certainly my husbands' friendsters,
it still seems weird to me. One of my favorite activities is deleting the accounts of opportunistic, turnip for brains actresses who freindster my husband [who is a director] in hopes of getting to know him.
I agree, nora. I don't dislike people I'm just happiest when they're not around.