{"id":363,"date":"2007-12-13T16:15:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T20:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2008-02-04T00:29:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T04:29:27","slug":"it-may-be-complicated-but-its-our-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2007\/it-may-be-complicated-but-its-our-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"“It May Be Complicated… But It’s OUR Complicated!”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Once upon a time, there was a social networking website called Friendster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Friendster had a good thing going for awhile, being the only decent social networking website on the Internet and all. But then Friendster made a few mistakes<\/a>, and people stopped using it. Even though Friendster is still out there today, most people consider it dead.<\/p>\n

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Then another social networking website came along called Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Facebook had a good thing going for awhile, too. Since Friendster had already paved the way for social networking, there was already a broad user base to draw from, and LOTS of people joined Facebook. (Facebook made some pretty big mistakes<\/a>, too, but we’re not going to get into that right now.)<\/p>\n

Facebook and Friendster had a lot in common. They both let people post information about themselves. One of those information pieces was “relationship status.” You know, like single, in a relationship, married, etc. <\/em>Friendster went a step further than the standard categories and added a category called “it’s complicated.”<\/p>\n

Facebook decided this was a good idea, and they did the same thing. After all, many relationships are complicated, and it’s important to let people express themselves in a way that fits.<\/p>\n

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Then Dead-Friendster yelled out, No! No! We said that first! It’s ours! <\/em>And they added a trademark symbol to it, to claim their territory.<\/p>\n

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And then the Internet laughed and ignored Dead-Friendster, because even though Dead-Friendster wanted to be important again, you just can’t trademark a complication.<\/p>\n

And because the Internet is a cruel, cruel place, the Internet decided to give the trademark (in spirit) to Facebook. Just to spit in Dead-Friendster’s eye.<\/p>\n

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And they all lived complicatedly ever after.<\/p>\n

The End!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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