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What's the deal? (Score:1)
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Re:What's the deal? (Score:2)
I think so.
Seriously though, I am learning some interesting things about people I (thought I) knew. But other than the interest factor it seems fairly pointless so far, except as a spamming tool (I've already received political spam via FoF messaging).
Re:What's the deal? (Score:3, Interesting)
The 'how many friends' is what I refer to as the gaming aspect, I do not play that game.
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Orkut actually offers something else. I have access to data on all my "friends" - the term friends here is a bit loose, since it includes people whom I now via IRC, people whom I have met at conferences/workshops and the Copenhagen Perl Mongers etc.
I can via Orkut have access to data like birthdays, phonenumbers and sexual orientation etc. eh, forget the last one, but anyway, this is data