MyFriendBook.com - Copyright pending

This is the single most awesome, hipster, would-be-comically-ironic-if-I-didn't-actually-think-it-was-so-god-damned-awesome, post I believe I will write this year.

This came up in conversation the other day and reminded me of how I used to want to (read: still want to) keep CIA-style dossiers on all my friends. Not like creepy stuff, or anything spy-y, just like all sorts of facts about them that I can never seem to remember like their birthdays, their favourite books, or like...what they look like.

Now this might sound really familiar. Social networking sites totes stole my idea and made it all digital so that it could be adaptive and networky and up to date. And, slightly less creepy to boot. What with the people make them themselves instead of me creepily putting together dossiers in my room.

But here's how I'm going to one up those lousy social networking sites. Here's where they missed my idea.

The idea is for you to make a page very much like your myspace, facebook, or long forgotten friendster page--replete with picture, interesting facts, other fun things you like or like to say or do or tevs--and then, then you print it out. And hand copies to all of your friends. And all of your friends do it to. And they hand them out to you. And you collect them like valentines or playing cards. You could event personalize inside jokes for your top eight or whatever.

Thing is, those sites online are adaptive. Meaning folks can pull that shit down when they realize they wrote something they regretted or grew out of or are so over. If you print it out, it is a record. People could even make like a version for a season, or a year, or a month if they were quick acting. Hand them out as updates.

You could totally even sell kits for this. First part of the kit is how to make your own. Second part is like an awesome folder or book to keep your friends in. You want a facebook? I totally jsut gave you one. And it is so called myfriendbook.com - offline.