SF Weekley has a great article called "
Attack of the Smartasses" which talks about the battle brewing between Friendster members and Jonathan Abrams, the creator of Friendster.
Never before have I ever seen so much dis-connect between someone offering a service and those who use it. In fact I've spent some time thinking about what I wanted to say about this situation and article in particular.
"Mr. Asshole proves why" was one headline, another appropriate statement would be "Battle erupts, not friendly at all". For a service which portends to be a place to meet people, Jonathan is literally telling people to get lost.
I just sure hope, (once he starts charging) that somebody stays around, for ALL our sake. Friendster could well be the first successful social software - in this new era. But since he hasn't shown any semblence of a business model - yet - we'll have to wait and see if his "anti-fakester" attitude will effect the system as a whole.
