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The Longest Now


Why social networking matters.
Friday October 27th 2006, 2:59 am
Filed under: %a la mod,chain-gang

Borat’s Friend Space:
Borat has 257073 friends.

Update: now slowed down to 484286 friends, 16 months later. talk about pan-flashes.


Welcome to my country. The country of Internets.

Why social networking matters. …




Spam aside, I’m having trouble following the logic. Social networking is important because a fictional character from another country who’s gotten major media attention has a lot of friends? Isn’t that called a mailing list?

Comment by Aaron Swartz 10.27.06 @ 8:42 am





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