i'm doing some cleaning and organizing of my hard drives to prepare for the eventual move and migration of stuff. i decided i'm gonna buy a macbook (since they just came out with faster ones, the old ones are cheaper and ub has a good deal) as my laptop and a new dell desktop for home use in my new apt. i'll be bringing one of my old pc's and slapping xubuntu linux distro on it mainly for some network storage of music and movies.
anyways... in the midst of cleaning things up... i found this which i saved cause i thought it was cool. anyways... my first friendster account prior to me getting freaked out with being way too connected and not anonymous anymore and subsequently closing my account. i was friends with canada. this was when these social networking site didn't have groups or whatever... and so people had to change their names to groups. at the time friendster really discouraged this... and started shutting these accounts down... so in response whoever had the canada account posted this to all his/her friendsters which was really nice.
From: Canada
Date: September 25, 2003 7:29 AM
Subject: Standing proud until the end
Message:
Friendsters,
IT IS WITH SOLEMN fortitude and eternal determination that Canada addresses you today. As you have seen, many an abstract concept, geographic locale, famous celebrity, and other non-real-human -individual members of the Friendster community have recently been forced to leave our midst.
Canada has stood strong the test of time for one hundred thirty -six years and remains committed to defending its sovereignty and the lifestyle its citizens have come to enjoy. But it would be an abdication of duty to ignore the threat posed at this juncture. Canada must acknowledge that its days as a Friendster may be numbered.
There will be no shirking from the functions expected of a government of our stature in these uncertain days. Friendster requests will continue to be approved, post offices will remain open, Parliament will remain in session, and testimonials will continue to be offered and received. But we must all remain vigilant while keeping our heads high. And we must remain thankful for the opportunity to practice parliamentary democracy in a nominally monarchic fashion with all of you dear, dear friends. If we do not have the opportunity to say it again, please know for all time that it has been a pleasure having each one of you as an official Friend of Canada for all of these months.
Let us learn the lesson of Canada's great far North, where the reward for enduring despite the months of darkness is an unending cascade of light.
Thank you for having us. We remain Yours,
Canada
the internet is really a weird place. you can meet and connect with so many people and not really ever meet them but get messages like the one above showing some sort of connectedness between people.