# Friendster.com rocks!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendster-com-rocks/195742>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 17, 2003, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendster-com-rocks/195742 "2003-08-17T09:30:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendster-com-rocks/195742/1 "2003-08-17T09:30:34Z")

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Seattle living is tough. No one really talks with anyone…even though we’re all pretty cool people. So, I’ve tried the friendster thing and it worked. i just got back from a very cool Elvis tribute party with a bunch of people that didn’t know each other except that I found them at concerts and pool halls. I love it. Any one else use this thing?

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**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendster-com-rocks/195742/2 "2003-08-17T10:43:04Z")

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It’s telling me I have no friends when I go to the gallery. ☹ I mean I have friends, but none that would do this type of service. Oh well.

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**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendster-com-rocks/195742/3 "2003-08-17T14:21:43Z")

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It’s also potentially selling your email address to lots of spam artists.

A friend of mine pestered me and pestered me to join, and all I got for it was a zillion more spam messages a day. Thank goodness I used my junk email address.

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**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendster-com-rocks/195742/4 "2003-08-20T06:30:50Z")

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> \*Originally posted by sj2 \*  
> \*\*Seattle living is tough. No one really talks with anyone…even though we’re all pretty cool people. So, I’ve tried the friendster thing and it worked. i just got back from a very cool Elvis tribute party with a bunch of people that didn’t know each other except that I found them at concerts and pool halls. I love it. Any one else use this thing? \*\*

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Did you see the article in the Seattle Times a couple weeks ago? It was like an expanded version of your post.

Started off with a lot of “Seattle is a hard place to meet people - no, it’s _really_ hard in Seattle” then went on to sing the praises of Friendster.

Eh, may have to sign up some day. My friends’ friends are, AFAICT, really strange people. 😃