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...Janacek said she received one MyDoom e-mail from a list for incoming first-years at Tufts, a university to which she never applied...
...Apparently I’m sending out viruses without knowing it,” said Brianne C. Janacek ’07, whose computer was infected with MyDoom after she downloaded an attachment from the Texas Club e-mail list...
James Cordero uses it to find musicians to perform at parties he organizes in New York City. Sharon Engelstein uses it to network with other artists like herself around the country. And Mary Janacek used it to meet her boyfriend Eric, who is a teacher in Los Angeles. It is Friendster, an online network that grew wildly this year by helping people meet new friends and lovers by connecting them to their friends' friends, and their friends...
...site is the brainchild of former Netscape engineer Jonathan Abrams, who christened friendster.com last March. The free site has already amassed more than 3 million registered users and become a regular habit for its hordes of mostly young, tech-savvy members. "It's totally a cult," says Janacek, 25, who adds that most of her friends already use the site. Friendster seems to be a hit with the suits as well. In late October it closed $13 million in financing--a bonanza in these frugal, post-dotcom days...
...degrees of separation--to thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. Since you can email and browse only the profiles of people in your network, there's lots of motivation to keep signing up friends and meeting new ones through the site. "It becomes like a popularity contest," says Janacek, who has 585,766 people in her network. To reinforce the idea of community, the site encourages people to post "testimonials...