Friendster’s downfall?
Call me anti-social, but I was never really one to jump on bandwagon when it comes to creating accounts on just about any online communities there are. Haha…That was then. But now it seems as if there’s just no stopping social media, and so here I am blogging on whatever comes to mind.
Today the number of friends I have in Facebook has surpassed the number of friends I have in Friendster…Call it some bad omen or what…But I honestly see this as just one of the many signs that Friendster will eventually flop or be left out with users who are hmm…let’s just say of a different profile. Upon visiting the homepage you really don’t feel like logging in anymore, because the feel is just bad and the look mighty cheap when compared to Facebook (the homepage of which at least looks a bit sleeker…somehow…probably it’s the different shades of blue…)…Also, the name Friendster just sounds so….soooo…juvenile I guess. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why it has not really caught on that much with social sites like MySpace or Facebook. While I am not cutting my account off yet, I guess I could say for sure that the action will now shift to other platforms. Friendster just doesn’t cut it for me anymore. Could it ever be revived? Could we see a more engaging Friendster in the future?
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By the way, I unsubscribed to this community called ‘Tagged’…it’s creepy man. Users get to play a game called ‘Yes’ where you somehow get matched up with different kinds of people. I seriously feel that this is for the bored and low-down cheapos. Also, you get these annoying emails from them every time someone clicks a ‘Yes’ on you. I only got into it because a friend of mine invited me to. But ya, if you can’t take it, then you’ve just got to leave it. 
It depends on market. it is still very strong in Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia. In fact in singapore it is still leading facebook slightly.
Well ya, for (perhaps most of) the SEA countries Friendster still leads…have noticed though that quite a lot have been ‘migrating’ to Facebook and that they check their Friendster accounts a whole lot less frequently…Let’s see…should be worthwhile to look out for
i deleted my friendster account two years ago! and unregretfully, too! hahaha… i juz set up facebook… and i’m limiting them to friends ONLY and really friends… and not juz with people i came across once in this lifetime… but if ’tis a cute guy adding me up… hmmmm… that’d be a whole diff story… hahahahaha.