I’m also strangely reminded of a the opening of The People vs. Larry Flynt, in which boy moonshiner Flynt whines about somebody else cutting into his profits. (BoingBoing, Facebook, and moonshine — all competing as the great timekillers).

Substance: Cory gripes about all social networking software assuming that friends are equal. But his fiancee already gave a solution: the technology can track how close you are to your friends by how well you keep in touch with them (whether you “dropkick” them on their SuperWall, etc.)– it can warn you if you haven’t contacted in a while. Also, Facebook may actually follow scaling constraints, which means more of a pain for masively-friended than it is for average folks on the “long tail.”

I didn’t abandon Friendster because of too many friend requests. I stopped using it (like many others) because there was nothing to *do* there. Facebook offers stuff to do. That’s why people use it.