I've finally broken down and started using the enormously fun and wildly addictive Friendster.com, which connects you to your friends' friends through relative links. It reminds me quite a bit of Everything2. While Everything2 shows user-defined relationships between ideas, Friendster shows relationships between people.
Prentiss has a thread about Friendster going on over at his blog, and points to a Village Voice story about the uses and gratifications of Friendster and comments on its exploding size.
One thing about Friendster I find quite interesting is how many semi-famous people are in my "personal network," as Friendster calls it. When I only had three friends on the service, I wanted to see who else was a Brian Jonestown Massacre fan, so I clicked on the band on my profile, to pull up the other fans. The first person in the results was none other than Anton Newcombe the creative force behind BJM. Casey Spooner from Fischerspooner is also in my network, along with many "A-List" bloggers and EFF big-shots.
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