See, with Friendster, you make friends, and it's P2P in a social sense and just like Napster, where you obviously make naps. After some peer pressure (or just a couple of mentions from people), I got around to joining Friendster. Being an absent-minded fool, I'll probably forget about it and not put any effort into it, thereby condemning the membership to futility. Still, I feel that I have an excuse. This is a geek gripe but:

In the world of broad-band, faster-is-better increasing speed, and instant gratification-on-demand, speed is more important than ever. People (us geeks especially) don't like to wait around in front of a computer. Friendster, everything else aside, may need to tune their response speed a little bit. I can click on a button ("home" for example) and have the resulting page come up within 2-200 seconds. No, I'm not kidding. 3 minutes. I translated some German in between, and then delivered it to Schroeder.

Its flaws aside (well, it flaws and inherent flaws in social interaction of this sort), I like some of the things it says to me. It's not meant to be funny but you join it and it says "You have 0friends." Bold included. Or, once you add one: "You are connected to 57,608 people in your Personal Network, through 1 friend." Damn. Now I feel anti social. I don't know 57,608 people...