wun manong: whatever happened to friendster

Tired of Facebook? Why not open your Friendster account? And you'll be surprise..really.

Last night, I opened my Friendster account and damn...I have friends that are still hooked up in it. That's really surprising.

More than seeing old friends during that-thing-called Friendster era, opening my Friendster account was a  trip down memory lane..the testis (testimonials) and the old pictures from way back then are still there.

Bit of History. It was founded by Jonathan Abrams in 2002. According to Wikipedia, it was founded to "create a safer, more effective environment for meeting new people by browsing user profiles and connecting to friends, friends of friends and so on, allowing members to expand their network of friends more rapidly than in real life, face-to-face scenarios". Few months after its release, Friendster was a hit. But in 2009, it saw a decline in traffic from ranked 40 to 800 in November of 2010 based on Alexa webtraffic reports.

Before Facebook, most of us had MySpace, Friendster and Multiply. I totally gave up my Friendster in as much as I gave up my Yahoo email address.

Before, Friendster was hit as much as Facebook is today. Add friends, write testimonials, grab pictures and design your own site by putting background music and skins. That was before.

Now, Friendster got a facelift and its green. There are also a lot of new features like shoutouts reformatted, games, treasure chest and more. But really, you'll note, its really not something new..Facebook has it.

One thing I hate about Friendster, there's just too many nude pictures out there that I think it has turned into a soft-core porn-social networking site.

Friendster is still popular in most Asian countries and it is interesting to note  that the Philippines is one of the top users.

I last logged-in to my friendster roughly two years ago. Why I gave it up? Maybe it was due to Friendster fatigue. I just gave it up. I just don't like it anymore. It was a case of i'll-open-it-once-i'm-into-it-agan. But Facebook came, better, more user friendly and it has more features like interactive and level-up games. So I left my friendster behind.

Friendster is where I have posted my first-ever blog..and I'm reposting it.

Check out my friendster account at