03.30.08

Friends or “Friends”?

Posted in Social Media at 5:15 pm by Mosey

Laurel Papworth posted a follow-up story on the Facebook “stalking” case. Short version of this, British courts ruled that facebook friends aren’t the same as real life friends. Duh?

It should seem obvious but anyone who has spent more an a couple of hours on MySpace, Facebook, Irc, Compuserv BBS, or pretty much any chat medium has come to learn that there are some people who take chatting way, way, way too seriously. I don’t just mean that one person who pretends they are a cat, I mean like any hello is the same as they just invited you into their house.

Somewhere there is a market for this… some sort of paranoia “friend cleaner” or “friend rater”
or “HNG-free” tag you can slap on ye olde profile that you are indeed a real person, relatively stinky free and are not a regular visitor to Cell Block D. Think of it as a “only allow bids from people with positive rating” for social apps, which are more and more sharing information.

First one to make this app for facebook gets 10,000 downloads and a free mention in a dozen blogs!

Oh and you can friend me, I don’t mind and I don’t think it means you love me back.

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