Buddy Test. A good way to lose friends and influence people.

‘Buddy Test is a fun way of finding out how much your friends know about you. You simply answer 10 questions about yourself (the reference answers), and supply the email addresses of up to 10 friends you want to test. An email is then sent to each friend individually inviting them to take part in the quiz. When they have completed the quiz you will be emailed their results and they will find out out how well they know you!’

BuddyZoo.com is a buddy list site with a difference. It apparently aims to let you know which buddies you have in common with your friends. The theory is that each of our friends has other friends who we may or may not get on with, if only we knew what we had in common. Geddit? No well, I’m not so sure either.

This kind of stuff seems to be a ‘flavour of the month’ at the mo. Huminity.com also promises similar, but with somewhat more grandiose ambitions.
‘Huminity is a free social networking software [sic] that enables people to share, create, modify and navigate a global map of connections via graphical animated maps…In only 6 handshakes of friends, you can reach any supposedly non-related person or celebrity in the world.’

Mmm OK, if you say so!