Friendster, the proto-social network that beat MySpace and Facebook to market in 2002 and then stopped operating in 2018, has a new owner with a strange plan for it. Mike Carson paid roughly $30,000 for the domain . The deal was $20,000 in Bitcoin plus another domain that throws off about $9,000 a year in ad revenue. The previous owner had grabbed Friendster.com at an expired-domain auction for $7,456. Carson's pitch is a social network that doesn't work without face-to-face contact. To add someone as a friend on the new Friendster iOS app , the two of you have to physically tap your phones together. You can message friends of friends, but the connection itself only exists if you've been in the same room. And friendships fade: if you don't see someone in person for a year, the link softens. It's a deliberate inversion of how every other platform works. Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok all want you scrolling. Friendster v2 wants you to put the phone down and go meet someone.…