{"id":2530,"date":"2005-06-09T19:11:21","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T23:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/06\/09\/\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:48:10","slug":"creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/creepy\/","title":{"rendered":"Creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/friendster.jpg\" alt=\"friendster\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendster.com\" rel=\"external\">Friendster<\/a>, an online service supposedly aimed at helping people meet and become friends on the Internet, is incredibly creepy.<\/p>\n<p>I was bullied into signing up by a few of my friends and eventually caved, against my own good judgement. The service is atrocious, you&#8217;ll get updates in your email stating that &#8220;Soandso has sent you a message&#8221; only to find out that your inbox with Friendster is empty. The message sometimes shows up a few days later.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I received this email from them today, which freaked me out in an arm-in-my-freezer sort of way:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not that we&#8217;ve been counting, but it&#8217;s been seven days since you signed up on Friendster. We figured that was enough time before we could email you.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, just emailing to say hi and let you know that we&#8217;ve been thinking about you. We hope you&#8217;ve been able to post your profile, put up some photos, invite friends and just chill out with some &#8216;you time.&#8217; Now, if you&#8217;re up for it you can also do this stuff with us: &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Where they proceeded to list several options I had, such as starting a blog (which only friendsters can view), writing a testimonial about one of my friends or inviting more people into Friendster subservience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friendster, an online service supposedly aimed at helping people meet and become friends on the Internet, is incredibly creepy. I was bullied into signing up by a few of my friends and eventually caved, against my own good judgement. The service is atrocious, you&#8217;ll get updates in your email stating that &#8220;Soandso has sent you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}