First Rule of Sales...

Don't call-on/bother someone, unless you have something to tell them. And don't try to be cute. Unless you're 13 and she is into cute guys. Of which, I don't fit.

And listen to the COO. They are the chief operating officer for a reason.

You're our favorite subscriber!

Seriously. I know we here at Friendster shouldn't play favorites, and our chief operating officer (he's the old guy in the office) told us not to do this, but seriously, you just totally rock. The way you reconnect with old friends. The way you've figured out just how small and interconnected the world really is. The way you discovered people with the same interests as you. We suspect you've even gotten a date out of Friendster, or that if you didn't, you could have if you needed to. Easy. With one of those three suspiciously hot people who keep popping up right above your friends list. For other people, we just use those pictures as cruel, aspirational temptation. But for you, they're totally getable.

We even made Friendster much faster just for you. But hey - don't tell anyone we told you all of this. That old guy in the office will just start lecturing us again and pulling out charts and graphs and PowerPoint displays. He's such a loser.

Thanks,
Your friends at Friendster

Click here to go to Friendster: www.friendster.com

Hotmail correctly assumed this was junk mail.

UpdateI: More on this nonsense at apophenia.

Update II: Looks like the friendster backlash was predicted in Dec 2003.

And more on this at GetReal.