My Friendster Network Owns You
Name Dropping
A while back, I came across the newest sensation in online time-suckage: the social-network, ala Friendster. I signed up some months ago, but found few actual friends on the system. Using the search, I discovered a guy in Chicago who shared my name, and then for fun, sent connection requests to some "celebs" I only casually knew. Imagine my surprise when I logged in a couple of weeks later and saw that my Friendster network was now over 300,000 strong, and included actual semi-famous-type comedians.
Comedians, particularly of the alterna-set, tend towards the nerd spectrum, and thus are early adopters of such innovations as CD-players, computers, video games and D&D 3rd Edition. Take Chris Hardwick, of MTV "Singled Out" and syndicated "Shipmates" hosting gigs. He lists his favorite music as:
"Radiohead, Neil Finn, Elvis Costello, Grant Lee Phillips,Cousin Lovers, The Sundays, World Party, Zeppelin, Glen Campbell, Nirvana, Weird Al, there's obviously not enough room to give you a valid representation of my musical taste. don't fucking judge me"
Can we say, nerdy, boys and girls?And not to forget Wil Wheaton who, thanks to his funny and insightful Weblog, remade his image into an Internet nerd rockstar.