Where did all these people come from?

28 May 2003 By

In the couple of weeks since I last checked Friendster, my personal network has grown from about 100 to about 1000 4000 people. Of course most of those folks are about 4 degrees out, so I don’t actually know them or anything. And you should totally add me. Email me. We’ll talk.

I’ve also decided that New Yorkers scare me. It takes a whole different kind of person to live there and I am totally not that person. I don’t think. I’ve never tried living there, so I guess I couldn’t say for sure.

  • http://bighead.waferbaby.com petya

    you don’t even know how right on you are about new yorkers! people should write books on the ways they [mis]behave. seriously! i like your site. keep it up.

  • http://shiitake00.blogspot.com amy

    my personal network jumped from 200 something to 2,400 on friendster (i don’t know most of those people either)… let’s link up and see how much we end up with =D.

  • http://www.highlymoody.com mel

    scared? of new yorkers?

    does.not.compute.

    ;P

  • http://beenie.highlymoody.com/ Kat

    Ummm, I’m with pita.

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    You guys are different! Maybe it’s the combination of that NYC attitude with that NYC environment. It’s just a totally different place.

  • http://www.highlymoody.com mel

    “You guys are different!”

    yeah, yeeeah, sure ;P

  • http://beenie.highlymoody.com/ Kat

    To loosely quote Carrie from SATC, something that sums up the feelings of quite a few NYers (Not necessarily me, but NY’s a close second): “If you only get one true love, mine’s NY. And I can’t have nobody talkin’ shit about my boyfriend.”

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    So, if you’re from Long Island, you consider yourself to be “from” NYC? My outsider perspective is that Long Island is a whole thing unto itself. Because that kind of sounds to me like saying you’re from Detroit, when you’re actually from Flint (a city that’s not *far* but it’s far enough away to not conceivably be in the Detroit metro area).

    Don’t even get me started on folks from Long Island….

    Here’s another thing: why do I, as someone who doesn’t live anywhere near there and has only visited once, even know all this? I want to see a tv show set in Detroit, so everyone everywhere can know the difference between downriver and Hamtramck and Greektown and Oakland County and the east side and the west side and all that jazz.

  • http://beenie.highlymoody.com/ Kat

    If you’re from New York, technically you’re a New Yorker. BUT… if you want to consider only people from NYC as New Yorkers, Long Islanders are more New Yorkers than people from north of NYC and the rest of Upstate. I don’t know if I can quite explain it…

  • http://www.livejournal.com/users/bridgettes bridgette

    NYers irritate me. Especially the ones who don’t move all the way into the subway car and/or walk slowly and/or don’t return your fucking phone calls.

    But hell yes, we (I say “we” because Ray Kelly, police chief, told me, “You are a New Yorker!” at my graduation last year) are different. And better.