{"id":1913,"date":"2006-10-19T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T21:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2006-10-19T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T21:04:54","slug":"do-you-miss-friendster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1913","title":{"rendered":"Do you miss Friendster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/15\/business\/yourmoney\/15friend.html?_r=2&#038;pagewanted=1&#038;oref=login\">The fall and rise of Friendster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember joing six degrees back in the mid-90s, but I was a timid high school student who barely knew anybody.  I wasn&#8217;t prepared&#8230;until Friendster came along.  I was more fascinated by how everyone was connected than viewing people&#8217;s profiles.  Seeing that my friend also knew someone else I knew was the most appealing part of Friendster&#8211;the common people we shared.  Then it was reading the testimonals and how people would describe themselves on their profiles.<\/p>\n<p>But why I lost interest?  Just like everyone else, other social networks had better critical mass.  Or better speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fall and rise of Friendster I remember joing six degrees back in the mid-90s, but I was a timid high school student who barely knew anybody. I wasn&#8217;t prepared&#8230;until Friendster came along. I was more fascinated by how everyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1913\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}