Comments on: Friendster dying? More like growing

By: sivenesh

sivenesh — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:42:47 +0000

well, friendster become porn website coz so many people upload naked pictures and finding sleeping bodies.

By: Young Upstarts - Voice of A New Generation » Blog Archive » Friendster Is Out to Make Friends

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:55:20 +0000

[...] Bernard blogs about Friendster here, and Su Yuen here. [...]

By: friendster hater

friendster hater — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:17:24 +0000

what?? friendster is actually growing?! what the heck is this? deceivers!! friendster is actually dying. it sucks. there are a lot of abnormalities going on with friendster this past few months. my friends were complaining about it and just yesterday i’ve had experienced it myself finally. my list of friends were gone! only one was left. how could that be? that’s disrespect to your users! i’m addressing this to the ones responsible. and sometimes fonts get larger than usual. i hope you can attend to my and my friends’ concern.

By: bitbot

bitbot — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:53:56 +0000

@Jian: From Jeff's slides, Friendster gets 36 million unique visitors per month. If I'm reading the statistics correctly, it says that Friendster has 40 million unique visitors monthly worldwide and hence, that'd mean 90% of their traffic is from Asia. Wow, that may explain why they're suddenly opening offices all over Asia for Operations and Marketing. Talk about crucial need for Asian market share retention and expansion. By the way, Peter Kim highlighted to me how misleading the statistics provided by Jeff are. If you look at the stats of daily reach(unique visitors) between Friendster, Facebook and MySpace as a % of total internet population, Friendster's line looks stagnant while Facebook is growing continuously. Therefore we can interpret Friendster's growth at only the same rate as the internet population growth while Facebook's rate is double that.

By: Jian

Jian — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:30:13 +0000

While the statistics shown may demonstrate that it has grown, it didn’t say where those hits are coming from. I think Friendster’s growth may be attributed to better worldwide growth as opposed to growth in Western domain (US/UK).

I don’t know, I just like facebook better because of the frontpage, more people use their real names and pictures and less random people inviting you. Seconding Kahwee too, it’s difficult to find friends on Friendster.

By: kahwee

kahwee — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:03:17 +0000

I thought Facebook seemed rather slow sometimes too although these days things got speedier. I like Facebook’s way of displaying friends much better. It’s a lot neater than Friendster which just dump one pile of friends into this section that has pagination…

By: bitbot

bitbot — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:23:43 +0000

@kahwee: Haha yea I guess the Facebook restrictions can be irritating sometimes especially when you’re developing applications. Friendster has waaay less restrictions for developers which makes things a lot easier. However, before Facebook’s privacy policies were stricter, many people were complaining about it being too open.

About Friendster’s interface, I don’t use Friendster anymore but according to Jeff, they got a whole new engineering team in just to revamp the whole backend and interface to make everything more engaging for users. Another reason why most of my friends left Friendster was because there was a time when Friendster couldn’t handle the traffic and pages took forever to load.

By: kahwee

kahwee — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:02:14 +0000

Hmmm, I didn’t know Friendster is growing too. It seemed to be messy and I tend not to be able to find the things I want. But Friendster is a great way to browse pictures because most people do not lock their picture set. Facebook’s success in implement privacy annoys me a little. I found Friendster more ‘friendly’, i.e. having lesser privacy features, haha… And the food looks really nice.