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OK, I joined Orkut. I hesitated because the BoingBoing people have been making fun of it, and apparently I must do everything Cory and Xeni tell me to do. So dougo invited me to it, and I said "meh". Then jjohn invited me to it, and... I still said "meh", but I clicked on the link in his invitation email and saw all these familiar and friendly ORA faces smiling back at me. Yes, sigh, OK. It's all for research, right? Finger on the pulse! The sacrifices we make.

You can go join if you want, and add me as a friend, if appropriate (I'm there under my real name and email address and so on). I dunno if I will ever send out any email invitations because, yes, "meh". Dunno if I'll ever fill out that personals-style information, either. Meanwhile, have been adding myself to 9,999,999 communities, which in some cases seem to have hundreds more members than their LiveJournal counterparts. The Perl community, for example, has 458 members.

But if you search for "perl", an earlier hit is for "I Hate Perl", with 2 members. And the first hit for "board games" is for a community called "bi poly kinky pagan gamer geek", which is almost exactly a local friend's summary description of the typical member of a certain local social circle, so I had to say har-d-har. (Friend is going nameless here to prevent incorrect association by proximity, ho ho.)

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It has come to my attention that Orkut is invitation-only, so if I want to see more friends on the network, and they're not already part of it, I have to use their little invitation system. But I don't want to spam my friends for the sake of a silly social toy...

Grunt. OK: I might send out a few seed invitations to a handful of you. I figure either you'll use them and then do the rest of my work for me (dragging in the people we know in common), or you won't, saving us all from silly social toydom. In either case you can beat me up for giving your email address to a website. Enjoy.