I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

I think I believe everything Bryan Adams says
Don’t you? Ok – you can ignore that if you’re a guy. But each time he sings, it always feels like he’s singing to me, that must be good, right? All those American Idol contestants sound like they’re singing at a karaoke lounge.

Things move quicker with fewer friends
So Friendster finally got around to improving their service. It works much faster now (they caught up with everyone else!) so you don’t have to wait endlessly for a page to load or to just go back. They did, however, cut your network of friends to just 3 degrees (the connections aren’t so prominently displayed past 3 degrees). I knew it. The answer to efficiency is fewer friends.

A couple of months ago I pretty much nailed the rule when it came down to judging a friendster profile by the photo. As with most rules (ok, more of a guideline) as long as I’m right 80% of the time, I think it works. But this was it: how to tell the sexual orientation (described in the Interested in meeting people for: section of the profile) from a photo.

If it’s a guy, with larger than usual biceps, and in a singlet – he’s probably interested in meeting people for: Friends, Dating (Men), Serious Relationship (Men), Activity Partners. Some variations of this: he’s in a tee shirt, but it’s tight. The tee shirt/ singlet is usually white, or gray. Most times the picture is taken in what appears to be a bedroom. There is the odd outdoor photo, too. But you’ll see the biceps, and sometimes abs, featuring prominently.

Perhaps this is the problem with having few friends – there really isn’t very much to do on these social networking sites, is there? Yeah, you can send people a message and say Hi to friends of friends. But how often are you going to do that, if you’ve kept your list to your usual 20 pals and don’t intend to go further?

I think this would be killer – they should make it possible to rate a photo/friend. So Orkut already kind of does it with the fans system. You also rate your friend’s based on coolness, reliability and sexiness (one for each segment that Orkut is trying to cover – social networking, business networking, personals). But that’s way too serious for Friendster. Right now, there’s no real incentive for someone to keep going back right? Yeah, rating a photo will be fun. I know I’ll keep going back to rate – there’re some photos I’m just dying to rate .