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Okay so first off thanks for making me feel like I missed out on making out with Moby while everyone else was doing it. Second, I don’t think your text was weird. Weird would be putting the rubber balls on all your friends’ shrines and sending photos as they travel around. You know, like the yard gnomes in “Amelie”… (BTW if you wanna do it, I’ll make room on my shrine 😂) And thirdly, thank you for the Friendster flashback. I refused to join because at the time I was convinced the whole idea of having online interaction with your friends no less was utterly idiotic. Like why can’t we just call each other?! Then I wasted a few years on Facebook instead 🙄 I do vibe with your comment below, maybe we have to come full circle - from real profiles, to carefully “branded” profiles, to multiple profiles that are all mostly fake, to get back to a place where social networking can be a delightful way of keeping in touch with actual close circles - minus the constant ad noise, the unsolicited opinions of relative strangers, the anger, the FOMO generated by perfectly staged photos of “oh just another day at the beach” etc. The Friendster profile pic looks so quaint. I guess I’m nostalgic for a platform I was never even part of!!! 😂

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Maria, you are now officially my friend on Friendster. :))))

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Text me when it makes a comeback.

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