{"id":546,"date":"2004-03-10T01:05:14","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T06:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2004-03-10T01:05:14","modified_gmt":"2004-03-10T06:05:14","slug":"orkut-lets-you-dissect-your-friendships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Orkut lets you dissect your friendships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orkut has a new “feature” that lets you define gradations of friendship. But who’s going to keep this up to date as relationships evolve?
\nThe Orkut friendship gamut runs as follows: haven’t met; acquaintance; friend; good friend; best friend.
\nSo, when I spend more time getting to know acquaintances at SXSW, am I going to upgrade those “aquaintances” to “friends”? After a particularly loyal action or intimate conversation, am I going to upgrade a “friend” to “good friend.”
\nWhat about downgrading? What amount of distance merits downgrading a “best friend” to a “good friend.”
\nOrkut started as a fun friend-collecting game, but this new friend-grading scheme is pretty pointless.
\nThe joys of friendship are in the nuances, the facets<\/a> of play and affection and trust that build and transform relationships over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orkut has a new “feature” that lets you define gradations of friendship. But who’s going to keep this up to date as relationships evolve? The Orkut friendship gamut runs as follows: haven’t met; acquaintance; friend; good friend; best friend. So, when I spend more time getting to know acquaintances at SXSW, am I going to … Continue reading “Orkut lets you dissect your friendships”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-8O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}