{"id":1317,"date":"2003-05-31T18:05:33","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T01:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2003\/05\/31\/mr-popular\/"},"modified":"2003-05-31T18:05:33","modified_gmt":"2003-06-01T01:05:33","slug":"mr-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2003\/05\/31\/mr-popular\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Popular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendster.com\/\">Friendster<\/a> seems to be growing explosively. I can almost sit there and hit the reload button in my browser, and watch the number of people in my network increase. It&#8217;s grown by about 250 in about 5 hours today. Apparently I am connected through 4 degrees to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendster.com\/user.jsp?id=234889\">Gwen Stefani<\/a> (if we can take the entry at face value), along with nine other Gwens, none of whom are the Gwen I&#8217;m seeing. It would be interesting to see a map of the connections between people. I suggest that some people are major nodal points (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendster.com\/user.jsp?id=62736\">one guy<\/a> lists 676 friends, which is kind of unbelievable). I am apparently 4 degrees removed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendster.com\/user.jsp?id=409839\">Jack Black<\/a>, by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendster.com\/user.jsp?id=77797\">some guy<\/a> who lists <b>881<\/b> friends. Zoinks!<\/p>\n<p>No surprise that it&#8217;s already spawned <a href=\"http:\/\/fiendster.com\">Fiendster<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/enemyster.com\">Enemyster<\/a> as parodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friendster growing like made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}