The Bipolar Otaku

I was going to make a post and say, whatever happened to SixDegrees.com. It was kind of a interesting concept, you get an email from one of your friends saying they are trying to track people knowing each other and that you should join and sign up everyone you know. They were trying to prove the theory that everyone in the world knows each other within six degrees of freedom, so you and some random person anywhere can really track the people you know and the people they know and you would find that you're only 5 people away. I was a fairly active user there, and they had decent chat rooms I guess, but I never really got many people to respond to the spam-like message they sent out. Back then I probably had the username Maui or some derivative thereof, and everyone always just assumed I was from Hawaii... Those were probably the first time I'd ever used a chat room, and probably the only time I ever found a reason to say "ASL check". And in the chat rooms, the closest I'd ever met in a chat room was 12 degrees away. Met some interesting people though... found some of the same ones online over and over again... Some of the people I met there, I don't remember their names, but some I can't forget my conversations... like the 13 year old Canadian girl who kept asking me for my picture (I never sent one... I just kept thinking that I don't want to seem like one of the internet pedophiles... But I also wonder whatever happened to her) or the my-age Indiana girl who was really into cars who told me "I'm looking for a boyfriend. Do you have any questions for me?" and I promptly replied "What would possess you to find a boyfriend on the web?" (I can be cruel, can't I?)

They shut down like 4 years ago, because it generated no money and ran no advertisements. Anyway, to the final point, I just noticed their site http://sixdegrees.com is back up as a coming soon, with what looks like the old logo they used to have.