Day: March 23, 2006


    • About five weeks ago when I talked with John he mentioned that Xanga was coming out with some new and revolutionary SN (social networking) features.  I urged him to call any 'Friends' feature 'hook-ups' .  He thought that 'hook-ups' might have too much of a sexual connotation and so (as is now obvious) stayed with a safer 'Friends' interface.  In my mind, hook-ups are not at all sexual.  Now, sex-ups, those just might be sexual.


    • There's a blogsite just for teenagers 13-18, that's right-you got to quit at 19, named yFly.com.  Of course, I'm only 16 so I can join and hang for a couple of years (looking for hook-ups).  Anyway, they are supposed to be "all about safety for youngsters".   Just listen: "Yfly is only for teens. That means if you are 12, you have to wait another year. Sorry. That also means if you are over nineteen you're not welcome either. We'll be watching for people who might be underage and for those who are older than they say. And we'll need your help too. You can report an underage user or someone you think is an adult posing as a teen at our abuse report page. If we find an adult using our site without our okay, we'll report them to Parry Aftab and WiredSafety.org. She may report them to the cops. We're serious about this. You're worth it."


    • Y yFly.com has a SN feature called "Pimp My Pages".  wtf?!  They have "Pimp My Pages" and we only got "Nudges" and "Friends".    Xanga!!!????


    • Parry Aftab.  WiredSafety.org.  Calling the cops.  Could she be the Nemesis that compelled Xanga to shutdown its pro forma  underage sites without warning?  John says: "I cannot go into details here other than to say that it was something we had to do."  Yeah, I even wrote John and he wouldn't spill the beans to me.  Damn it, John, it's your longest-time antagonist, nfp, and you can't spill the beans?  Could you, maybe, just knock 'em over accidentally?  Sounds like Xanga's under a court order to remain mum.  I wonder if they were threatened with a civil suit and taking the action they took and remaining mum on the terms of agreement was part of the settlement they made to avoid the lawsuit?

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