Monday, December 03, 2007

The unbearable finiteness of being

i have this monstrous urge to find an old friend on facebook. any friend. i really want to find someone i haven't been in touch with for ten, fifteen, twenty years. heck, i don't even mind finding them on orkut -- it's that bad.

but unfortunately i think i've run out of long-lost people. all taken and accounted for.

i think i'll start a social network for imaginary friends.

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  1. or even better, one for people who meet exclusively on blog networks,
    given that facebook and orkut have pretty much cornered the market for old friends and nostalgia?

    and hullo - been here for a while now, but never really commented!

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  2. You can try finding some of my long-lost friends then, I have many of them :P

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  3. Long-lost friends are long-lost for a good reason, TR ;)

    Though the social network for imaginary friends is a splendid idea. I wouldn't mind joining that network.

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  4. I have all sorts of imaginary friends anyway :D

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  5. tap:
    hello :-)
    yes we could do that too, but then what would happen to the commentspaces?

    lekhni:
    hello to you as well!
    and what do you take me for - interpol? :-D

    km:
    hold on, i'm sending you my imaginevite.

    szerelem:
    yes, but no network to put them in, right? (now where's a venture capitalist when you need one?)

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  6. I am the Great Google Stalker. I've googled everyone I know - and I'm talking Aunty Olga's-nephew-from-Australia-who-I-once-met-at-a-party-in-1983 kind of everyone I know. I've LinkedIn people and LinkedIn their connections and THEIR connections and so on till I no longer remmber who's profile I'm looking at. I've facebookstalked bitter enemies because I ran out of friends and acquaintances and Aunty Olga nephews to facebookstalk. I have no shame. And I know EVERYONE. The few people I am not connected to in some tenuous way, like Hillary Clinton or Bono are not worth bothering about.

    The imaginary friends idea I totally support.

    n!

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  7. n!
    i just googled you. congratulations on the ack-ack.

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  8. n! you kill a lot of innocent newborns in that explosion of yours. i am not asking you to be greedy but you can be dynamic. cant you? n!, really? perhaps. or not.

    baby V.
    "i am not an expert but i can try to sound like one" - baby V.

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  9. an iFriend, ah dhang you?

    Baby V.
    P.S: Sorry for the lame repeat comment. I am just trying to seek attention. Sorry.

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  10. You can have my long lost folks too man, there's a few all over the place. I prefer random email remembrances to the ones facebook/orkut incites.

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  11. baby v:
    hello. and dhang you to you too :-)

    renovatio:
    ah, an anarchist in our midst!

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  12. TR: thanks!

    n!

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  13. N! omigawd! Me too! Let us rejoice in our mutual Great Google Stalker Fabulosity.

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  14. lekhni:
    noted...

    thalassa:
    feels good to be out of the closet, eh?

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