Perhaps I’m not hip enough, but I really don’t get the whole social network thing (ala Friendster or Orkut, the new Google site). It just looks like a variation on your standard singles site with the benefit that you can talk to all of your erstwhile partner’s friends if things go sour. In this setting, “friend” appears to be a code word for possible partner in a romantic relationship.

I don’t even want to know my own friends most of the time, much less their friends too! Introvertster might be more my style…