Talk:Friendster

Widespread / common knowledge

This article really is less useful without SOME mention of the usage of friendster. I mean, Friendster was once one of the hottest and most talked-about sites of the internet, and is very historically important as an early social-networking site, but it has now almost completely been eclipsed by myspace and facebook.

Does anybody know of any usage statistics that can reflect this? I notice that back awhile ago there was a "Decline in popularity" section that was deleted due to the unreferenced source Nazis, but it seemed to be right on. I looked for some references, but it just was common knowledge -- I mean, the fact the site was slow was known by anybody that actually used it, but the company obviously does not want to advertise this... referencing blogs is kind of ridiculous, and referencing CNN articles and the like is impractical. This was an important factor in the decline of freindster.

Google search for friendster is slow: [1]

Links

I noticed that there seems to be some disagreement on whether to link to the top page of Friendster's Web site or to link to its login page. After unwittingly participating in the disagreement myself, I decided to compromise by putting the login link in parentheses after the main link. Thoughts? —LarryGilbert 21:15, 2004 Mar 6 (UTC)

Freedom of Expression

"In August 2004 the company behind Friendster reduced its credibility as a virtual community that allows freedom of expression by firing one of its employees who made posts on their blog." Is it me or is there a strong editorial tone here? Since when do employees not face rules in activities related to the company? lots of issues | leave me a message 19:27, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Tara Reid

How come someone removed the fact that Tara Reid registered as auser on Friendster? It was reported by Inside Entertainment Magazine. She doesn't use it now. There are now many fraud users. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lil Flip246 (talk • contribs) 01:23, September 3, 2005.

Wikipedia:Cite sources.... Also, your edit inserted qksrv HTML into the article, which I removed. --Perfecto 03:37, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Financial Status

How is the company doing financially?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.12.132.120 (talk • contribs) 10:54, November 17, 2005.

Who's Viewed Me

2/26/06: Did some editing to the "Who's viewed me" controversey, essentially cutting out the more inflammatory assertions about "violating privacy rights" and "causing present boyfriends to get in trouble with their girlfriends about having looked at their previous girlfriend's friendster site." Did so for two reasons: 1) cause the previous language seemed written by a scorned ex-boyfriend, and was by no means objective, and 2) Cause I think it was factually inaccurate that friendster "suddenly" foisted this on people. There was notice - albeit, not sufficient for some. In any event: I welcome comments on the change.Jahenderson

Popularity

Should include some article on the popularity of Friendster over time; how it was intially very popular, but eventually faded and has given way to the likes of Orkut and the currently overwhelmingly popular MySpace. Need to dig up some objective sources for this, though. Pimlottc 18:52, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Maybe, but it's still one of the 20th most popular sites in the world.

7FlushSetzer 21:38, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

List of social networking websites on AfD

List of social networking websites is currently an AfD candidate. You are invited to partake in this discussion. Czj 18:53, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Friendster Patent: Will it apply outside the USA??

Does anyone know what will happen to similar sites in the UK or in the rest of Europe? Does this US patent cover the EU? Much appreciated, thanks!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.133.33.120 (talk • contribs) 16:22, September 27, 2006.

I Believe in Friendster

I believe in Friendster. I think the company can get back on the track. It is the original networking site and its name is still more striking than the competition. It definitely has lots to improve in terms of its features, but with a little more push from creative minds, it has a chance to win back people.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.5.121.190 (talk • contribs) 05:47, October 25, 2006.

Work for Friendster, do ya?

Cleanup

I removed much of the problem text from the article and added a couple sources. One part still needs a source, and if one isn't found in a week I'll remove that paragraph until such a time that it can be sourced.--Crossmr 20:41, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Logo

Anyone noticed that the quality of the logo seems to be crap? I'm sure the fair use "low resolution" requirement isn't quite that strict and there's got to be better versions around.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.20.5.93 (talk • contribs) 13:27, December 28, 2006.

If you can find a better low resolution version please submit it, but the requirement is to be held to. Wikipedia is very strict about that.--Crossmr 15:25, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Server Synchronization

I think something should be said about the problem Friendster had for the longest time (I don't know if this has ever been fixed since I quit using it because of this) That friendster used a multiple server system where the servers would take some time to synch, so that you would write and send a message using one server, and receive messages on another server, and your homepage would be on yet another server, so that they would be out of synch constantly, and sometimes they would go out of synch again later so that a message you deleted would reappear. People were sending me messages, it would say I have 2 messages, I would open the Inbox and there would be nothing. A week later the messages would be there. I hope they fixed that, but that was right around the time myspace became the fastest growing networking site. I think they fixed this with the final release version of the site, but they also introduced all the advertising elements and redesigned the previously simple interface into the confusing monster it is now. So fact finders you have your mission, GO! 71.56.121.28 02:08, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Do you have any reliable sources from which that information can be drawn?--Crossmr 14:52, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I totally agree. Also, *something* should be said about what is generally agreed on one of the biggest negative aspects of Friendster during its popularity, that is it was ***SLOW***. Back in 2003-2005 it would take over 10-12 seconds for a page to load, and this made many users, including myself, very frustrated. Facebook and Myspace never had this problem. I remember a previous wikipedia entry about this had this information -- I think people are being a bit too aggressive about deleting information. This was central to the downfall of friendster in popularity... --gsm996 10:09, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Unless it can be verified with reliable sources it can't be in the article.--Crossmr 14:33, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Hacked...i think

hello! i think my account was hacked... The E-mail changed... the friendster Help dont help that much as they wont respond to it! so much for costumer service... What am i going to do>?????? It says that the email is not a valid friendster log-in :( —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.148.97.69 (talk) 21:33, 6 April 2007 (UTC).

This talk page is for discussions around the improvement and changes to be made to this article. Its not a general discussion page for the subject. You'll have to find somewhere else to get help with your issue. Contact Friendster or start with google.--Crossmr 02:59, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

"It's Complicated"

It seems that friendster had trademarked the term "It's Complicated." Anything on this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 218.186.9.1 (talk) 15:07, 12 May 2007 (UTC).

I can see a total of 1 blog via a google search commenting on this, which isn't usable as a source. There is a TM stamp on the term in the edit profile section. That's all the information there is.--Crossmr 15:46, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

CNN article no longer there...

...just something I noticed - citation should be removed OR someone should find the article...:) Tehniobium 22:42, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

screenshot

Should be .png or .gif. Lossy formats like .jpg are not good for screen shots. 75.36.229.136 09:57, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

What the.....? Even Jimmy Wales has his very own friendster?!? OMG!!!

Is this for real? 218.111.2.87 20:26, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

after Wales invented the internet, computers, laptops and invented

wikipedia.net completely alone, you must be silly to think that Wales

did not invent friendster.com, my space, you tube, facebook , etc.

SixDegrees

Isn't it true that Friendster was originally designed and created based on the SixDegrees website that tried a similar thing for business networking? I thought I had read that all the original source code came from an acquisition of that company. ChrisStansfield 19:26, 19 August 2007 (UTC)