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Trying Too Hard to be Funny

7 January, 2008 (08:47) | Social Networks, Writing, humor | By: William McCamment

I spend a lot of time these days (too much time) on a web site called Digg. It’s one of those social networks in which you create an account, upload an avatar and start socializing by submitting and/or voting on stories found on the internet. On Digg, these “votes” are creatively called “Diggs”. The more Diggs a story gets, the more popular it is and thus moves higher and higher up the page until, if really popular, it reaches the “front page” where it is seen by the most people and receives even more Diggs. If a story does not meet your personal minimum standards, you can “Digg it down” by giving it a negative vote.

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