Review: Friendster
June 18, 2007 by Kevin
Filed under Social Media
Site: Friendster.com
Members: Over 40 million registered users
Features:
Friendster, like most of the modern day social networking sites, has the common traits of most social networking sites: messaging, search feature, blogs, classifieds, schools, video submission, and forums.
Also included on your log in page is a friend updates section that lets the user know any new information about their friends, what they are fans of, bookmarks, birthdays, groups and school mates. It is a tabbed feature and is a lower tech version than what is offered on Facebook, which uses the update feature best.
Friendster’s blogging software is based off of Typepad’s blogging software, giving it the most robust blogging software on the social networking scene that I have seen thus far.
The search function on Friendster allows you to different ways to check out others users profiles, however it limits the results to 1,000 users, which is a pain when collecting data. Also when searching groups it doesn’t seem to apply a rhyme or reason to the order in which your search results come, making it cumbersome to navigate through.
Profiles can be customized to some extent, nothing on the level of MySpace though.
Review:
I was on Friendster originally a year after it launched, the site has changed a lot since then, incorporating a lot more of the popular social networking functions we see today. Originally it was THE social networking site before server issues and slow load times plagued the site leading to a mass exodus to MySpace.
Since then the company has changed some of the technology that they run on and brought in a new management staff. I still think the site runs pretty slow in comparison to other social networking sites, but it has noticeably improved since the “dark days”.
Marketing wise the search ability hurts a user in effectively data mining the site.
While still boasting a large US user base, Friendster has been fueled my expansion in Asia and other countries. It would be a solid second tier marketing option, there are bots available for it, which I will review in the upcoming weeks.
My Friendster account: here
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I’m disappointed by the blog service at friendster. It seemed as if they are trying to get rid of it by not showing the updated blogs or making it disappear from profiles altogether. Admittedly I don’t use friendster for blogging because I have myspace for that, but it would’ve been nice if they could’ve made it more accessible to people.
I used to have a friendster account. I made one like a day before I joined myspace.
when i first joined friendster, i thought it would be awesome. but i havent been able to see my comments for 3 days. which was the day i joined. its very annoying. i think friendster needs A LOT of maintenance.
i lost my friendster account how can i recover that i have a lot of picture there… i hope that my account will be recovered soon………please
I think my friendster account blocked, how can I recover it. Please help me.
a few days ago,i delete my account accidentaly.and i got a new account in same name and same adress.now i want to see my all friends again in same account.because now i dont have any friend in my new account.
hey I don’t know what happened but I have like 3000 friends in friendster
this nov. 14 when I checked it was ONLY 110! I don’t know what happened If I was hacked or something but I wouldn’t see the point wasting a lot of time deleting all of my friends!
do u think it’s jz an error?
i hit the maximum limit in friendster, and i couldn’t add more people. I really hate it, why would you do that. rather than other site you can add friends as many as you want! its unfair….. plssssssssssssss
i deleted some old and inactive friends but when i try to add new friends, there is an error “YOU HAVE A MAXIMUM NUMBER OF FRIENDS”, how this possible?
when my friends are only 2100 plus and some of my friends reach the numbers of 3000… what seems to be the problem?
how can i have more friends …because i just have 370 friends….and i need to add more….so the question is how can i add more friends besides deleting my other friends…??