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Pimping the List Lost someone off the notify list yesterday. I had to go re-read what I wrote to see if I mistakenly offended someone. But no, a little shmoopy and self-indulgent, yes, but nothing dramatic. I didn't lose anyone after Reason and Faith or Chad's Pro-War guest entry. I got a couple odd half-messages after The Other Side of the Coin but no one left the list. Heh. One of the letters I got simply said 'how could you?' I wrote back, 'how could I what?' but got no response. Ah well. I'm chalking it up to my sporadic posting. You don't get readers without a regular schedule. According to Sars, anyway. Hey, it could be anything, right? Maybe this person is tired of online journals altogether. It's not surprising that someone would stop wanting to read the boring laundry lists of people's lives. That someone would never be me, of course, but it's possible that others might. Ah well. Still, if you want to make me feel better, join the list. It's good for what ails you.
Yet another site had debuted allowing you to link together all your friends and their friends and so on. Joel dragged me onto Friendster and I'm proud to say I've managed to link up eight people to my friends list. It all about the ego. You do NOT want to be the person with the least friends on the list, because you can click on your 'friends' pages and see how many friends they have and so on. Do you want everyone to think you can only find two friends? DO YOU? My question about these places is how they make any money? Given the server lag, they must have lots of folks playing, but nowhere are they asking for money. There's a very small selection of merchandise, but if I hadn't clicked on the tiny 'Store' link in the nav, I wouldn't have known it was there. It's all too likely that this is simply some sort of email gathering tool, as it gets its hapless victims to bring more and more of their friends in, and their friends, and so on. In a month we could all be deluged in Spam, our cyberloafing brought to a screeching halt by a hundred e-tonnes of crap. It wouldn't surprise me. I didn't make a pick yet for tomorrow night. I'm going to predict that Rob stays with Butch, Matthew and Christy, all who vote off... Heidi! There you go.
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