{"id":265,"date":"2003-10-29T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=265"},"modified":"2003-10-29T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-29T19:30:00","slug":"were_all_friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"We’re All Friends Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, is anyone out there on Friendster<\/a>? If so, you think I can get an invite? I’m not really interested in finding a date; I just want to see how the thing works. I read this little blurb about it on Ars Technica<\/a> and the concept intrigues me. I’m always fascinated by the various ways technology shapes our social interactions and behavior. Just look at phonecams. They’ve been around for what, a little over a year? And already schools and health clubs and other places of business are starting to ban their use. Is Friendster just a digital form of traditional matchmaking or is it more illustrative of the whole concept of six degrees of separation? Anyway, I’m curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, is anyone out there on Friendster? If so, you think I can get an invite? I’m not really interested in finding a date; I just want to see how the thing works. I read this little blurb about it on Ars Technica and the concept intrigues me. I’m always fascinated by the various ways […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-4h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}