Relationships and interests

• Neuroscience people
• People I've gone exploring with
• Other explorers I know (but haven't gone exploring with)
• People with good blogs
• People who don't never fucking blog
• Couples (e.g., Brindle and Mark, etc.)
• Karaoke people (i.e., have performed at my fav karaoke bar)
• My bride and groomsmaids
• Bands I like
• Musicians (not necessarily in a band)
• Dead friends (profiles of deceased individuals such as Spalding Gray, Syd Barret, etc.)
• Friends who got comment bombed (beth, etc.)
• Early adopters (on MySpace before me)

Fictional and/or funny assortments of characters/profiles (usually accomplished by collecting fake profiles for expressly this purpose.

• The Death Star Wrecking Crew (Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie)
• Dark Lords of the Sith (Darth Sidious, Darth Maul, Darth Tyrannus, and Darth Vader)
• Mt. Rushmore (Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln)
• Pink Floyd (Syd Barret, Roger Waters, Rick Wright, and David Gilmour)
• The Fantastic Four (Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Girl, Human Torch, and The Thing)

Plays on names

• Twins (e.g. Elizabeth and Elizabeth)
• More Twins (more of the same)
• Not twins (e.g., Tim and Tom, Allen and Alan)
• Friends whose name spell SANDWICH (using the first initial of individuals in that week's Top 8).
• Brought to you by the letter A
• Brought to you by the letter J
• One-syllable names
• One-syllable names, part II
• Amygos (friends named Amy, etc.)
• The Kellys (friends named Kelly, obviously)
• More twins (i.e., Katt and KAT, Ian and Ian, etc.)
• Compound names (e.g., Coffinnail, etc.)
• Alliterative names (Jake Johansen, etc.)
• Royalty (names beginning with Princess or Lady or Emperor, etc.)
• Friends whose names are in ALL CAPS

Props

• Friends who want to "ax" you something (i.e., they're holding a guitar in the pics)
• Potent potables (holding a beer, etc.)
• Guys (and dolls) with hats
• Girls who wear glasses
• Guys with glasses
• Friends who have it made in their shades.

About the main picture

• What are they looking at (looking in a weird direction)
• 1+1=2 (two entities in a shot, pets count)
• Black and white
• Camera-shy people (i.e., have pictures not of themselves)
• People who change their main pic all the fucking time
• The color red (i.e., predominantly red)
• The color orange (ditto)
• The color green (ditto)
• The color blue (ditto)
• The color purple (ditto)
• Animated gifs
• Too close to the water (i.e., water in the shot)
• People in Halloween costumes
• Halloween themed (i.e., pics of decorations if not costumes)
• Frames around picture
• Drawings instead of a photo
• Cropped in the frame
• Symmetrical
• Circles (circles feature prominently)
• Diminishing (4, 3, 2, 1 friends in main pics across my Top Friends list)

For example, I could organize my friends by levels of interaction or how I know them, most people talk about their "real" friends and their on-line friends.  I guess you could break it down even further into:

• Real-world friends I knew before MySpace
• Real-world friends I met through MySpace
• MySpace friends I've talked to on the phone
• MySpace friends I've never met in the real world

• MySpace people who found me through a friend (or a friend of a friend) who I've randomly added because they seemed cool but I will probably never take the trouble to meet in the real world

One of my friends (she knows who she is) predicted it wouldn't take long before I shifted over to more offensive Top 8 lists.  She was right, of course, but I haven't had the urge to 7 or 8 people at a time, at least not among my friends.  Besides, they would just drop off the list as soon as I posted it, so where's the fun in that?  Unless you want to be on one of these lists.  If so, I'll pencil you in.

I never really came up with any categories, but, here, how do these sound?

• People I keep around just to be entertained by the scattered showers of drama in their lives.
• People (girls, obviously) who have engaged in saphitic activities in my fantasies.
• People (again, girls) I totally want to see in goth make-up and/or something latex (probably with a cape).
• People who are ADD and don't know it.
• People I would stalk if I had more free time, more energy, and gas was cheaper.
• People who post too damned many surveys.
• Friend collectors who never even bother to introduce themselves; they just spam me with requests.  (Oh, yeah.  Never mind.  I delete those requests.)

Hmmm.  Any other categories you can think of?  I'm not creative enough to come up with more.  That and I need to devote more time to filling out surveys to repost.

...are real-world folks I knew before MySpace (arranged in order of appearance in my life story; Robin wins).
...outdoorsy types.
...have sculptures as their main pic.
...are near rocks and other hard places.
...are my version of Color Me Christmas!  (Red and green profile pics.)
...spell Christmas!
...are vintage.  (Especially Barry.  Happy Birthday, Barry!)
...Halloween leftovers.  Great pics, guys!  Thanks for posting.  (In costume from parties, etc.)
...are babyfied!  (Pictures of/with their kids.)
...are stand-ups.  (Standing full-frame in the shot.)
...come in pairs.  (I've done this theme before, but it's been a while, so somewhere between most and all of these are new.)
...are two of a kind for the second time.
...are funny characters (in their names).
...offer salutations.  (People waving.)
...are all Jens.
...think their avatar is sooooooo original.  (Close-up shots of their eye.)
...the final round (for a while) of the two-fers.
...are guitar people (another re-run featuring new folks).
...are gypsy jazzers.
...are Rockabilly Rebels.
...electronic artists I dig.
...Halloween leftovers.  Great pics, guys!  Thanks for posting.
...are babyfied!
...are stand-ups.
...are retarded too.* (Nobody wants to see pictures of your kids, dammit!  Or mine.)
...are Halloween maniacs.
...come in pairs.  (2.5 in Chessie's case.)
...more two-fers.
...have the longest damn user names.
...have legs and they know how to use them.
...smell like Halloween!
...are wordy.
...are getting their Halloween on. (Admittedly, some of them look like this all the time.)
...don't give a Shift.
...NEED TO STOP YELLING!
...is raining cats and dogs!
...are funnier than you.

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