Friendster Is Distinctly Sub-Par

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After noticing that the alumni group I created on facebook had spontaneously gained members, I decided to spend more time exploring the presence of Reedies on other online social networks, including Friendster, and I’ve reached an important conclusion: Friendster sucks is distinctly sub-par. This isn’t exactly an original insight, but it’s become meaningful to me.

In what ways is Friendster distinctly sub-par, you may ask:

  1. It’s broken. For two weeks or more it hasn’t returned any results when I click the “Reed College” link in my profile.
  2. It’s SLOWER than a very specific swear that I’m not going to use right now, since I originally used “ass” in the title of this post and then decided to clean up my language. When I use Friendster’s search to look for profiles that list “Reed College” it takes forever to display each page of results. It doesn’t help that…
  3. It pauses and inserts fricking dating site ads in between every 4th entry in the search results for True.com. They are all targeted using info in my profile, because they are all women in or near Seattle and I’m a male in or near Seattle. Of course, they ignore an important part of my profile, which is that I specified that I’m “just looking around,” and that I didn’t check that I’m looking for a “relationship with women.” Also, the women they list don’t appear to have anything to do with Reed College, AND some of them are clearly not looking for men.

It may or may not be important to reach out to alumni using Friendster, but I don’t think I’m going to be the one to do it. It’s too irritating to use.

Hey You, What Other Blogs Should I Be Reading?

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So,  I know that there are some of you out there reading this blog via RSS aggregators and what not and I’ve got a question for you:

What other blogs should I be reading that I might not already be?  Maybe you have a blog of your own, or maybe you know a guy, who knows a guy, or maybe you just happen to be reading something I can afford to miss.

So, why not leave me some suggestions in the comments for this post.  And while you are at it, introduce yourselves.

I’m un-Cured!

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I just purged my iPod of a bunch of long dirgey Cure songs from some concert bootleg I downloaded. For the last year I’ve been skipping them pretty much every time they come up on shuffle play, so the purge is long over due.

I’ve been listening to a bit of each track to see if any of them are worth saving, and I’ve got to say, it’s a wonder more teenagers don’t off themselves. I mean, as I recall, listening to the Cure made me feel better, which means I must have been feeling pretty crappy.

Not the night of my first and only Cure concert though. I think I was 15, summer was coming to an end. My “girlfriend” bit me painfully hard on the neck, and then disappeared until I found her making out with some fucking preppy in the lobby. The music was no solace when I went back into the cow palace and the PA crushed my brain with sound.

I’m not getting rid of all my Cure tracks though. I’m keeping the earlyish studio stuff, and some live tracks from another tour. The Dream Tour is right out though. I’ve only found one or two tracks that I’m even tempted to keep.