friendster emoticon spluh

Hooboy. I really, really hate Friendster. I mean, I joined a while back and all my amice e amici are on it and it sucks. I hate it.

It is slow. It is 28k-modem-downloading-pr0n-back-in-the-day slow.

It is obnoxious. I try to delete a message sent to me from my inbox and it takes a day to disappear from it. That's right, kiddos: 24 hours pass before the "deleted" message removes from my inbox. The same time delay occurs fra a new message appearing in the inbox - those idiots email my home account to tell me I have a new message fra someone and yet it will not materialise therein for another, say, day. Sometimes longer. Gee, what a useful email service.

Not to mention I am cranky about the people I've found. I'm on Tribe.net and already I've gotten all this great service: posted a want ad, found want ads to reply to, met nice people and only four acquaintances of mine have joined. Understandably - who wants to join all these different clone networks? - but the point was rather that my "network" is comparably tiny in comparison to the legions of contacts I have on Friendster.

What offset this rant? Hm? Tryptophan hangover-fueled Krankheit? Low blood-sugar?

Nope.

I bookmark people who are interesting. They share interests or I run into them online somehow and they seem neat and so I bookmark them so I can keep tabs on what might come up that is interesting.

So this one girl I bookmarked sent me an email message. "i'm sorry. i am not a lesbian. you can unbookmark me now."

Now, you have to imagine the LEGION of assness boiled into that two-sentence acid burn. I am on Friendster for a million reasons, and am listed like that. I thought this girl was interesting. She doesn't have a clear photo up, so why assume I'm looking at her ass? I can't look at her ass, it ain't visible. Her interests are interesting. She's a friend of a friend of a greatly interesting person; she is in my area: I bookmarked her. Friendster is so annoying that I don't use it all the time, but I guess she must be online all the time because clearly my bookmarking her annoyed the fuck out of her.

I wrote her a note.

"Sorry, didn't mean to cause you offense. I just liked your page is all. I'm not campaigning for some poon. I have interests outside of sex and romance... Does it bother you that I had you on my bookmarks list as someone interesting? I actually don't use my bookmarks so often but I also didn't know it was visible fra your end. Consider yourself unbookmarked as soon as I can get Friendster to do it. (She's a touch cranky with me and sometimes it takes a while.) - [me], not rampaging for poon"

Suitably chastened, she replied, "i was harsh, for that i am sorry. peace, [her]"

What is up with that shit, man? It's not like I was emailing her lusty letters. Or even emailing her, for that matter.

I now quote my favourite Austro-Afro-Antarctico-Amer-Asian: "Spluh!"