Why Friendster Sucks
by Alphaville Herald on 10/07/04 at 5:41 am
Not sure how many of our readers use Friendster, but I really liked this rant by Amanda Egge detailing the idiocy that is Friendster (“My dog could build a better website than Friendster, granted my dog has an IQ of 130, but still he’s a fucking dog for crying out loud.” ) The interesting beef though is about the “black shirted” social controls imposed by Friendster powers that be. That seemed relevant somehow.
This rant came to my attention via the blog of another fellow WELL-hole, Jon Lebkowsky (who is also only one link separation from me on Friendster, now that I think of it). Here is a snippet from his post:
Apparently Jonathan Abrams, the creator of Friendster, couldn’t handle
the fact that people were having a little fun on his site so he sent
in the Friendster black shirts to start deleting people’s pictures and
profiles. Friendster was apparently not a place for “Fakesters” (fake
profiles that pretended to be celebrities, schools, pets, presidents
and the like.) For example, my friend Jody (who happens to be
diabetic,) made a profile for Diabetes Bear (her childhood teddy
bear,) that featured the small stuffed bear with a diabetic needle
sticking out of its arm. The photo was deleted just days after she
uploaded it. Other Fakester profiles have been deleted altogether,
“suspended” for having a sense of humor.
RB
Jul 10th, 2004
Good rant.
- RB
mafioso
Jul 10th, 2004
Yeah. Friendster sucks. Been there done that and gave up, wondering why my friends thought it was the shit.
uri
Jul 12th, 2004
test
RB
Jul 13th, 2004
TEST 123.
Urizenus
Jul 13th, 2004
Hey, Daniel Terdiman, who covered the Alphaville Elections for Wired News has an article on Friendster opening their own celeb pages after banning similar pages by users. What an outfit. You’d think they were run by EA.
here’s the link: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64156,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
Haji
Jul 13th, 2004
Looks like Uri’s experience is like mine in SL ..nothing to talk about. In this case no news is bad news bro .
Mark Taormino
Jul 13th, 2007
I know I joined Friendster and went there like two times. I have like three supposed “friends” on there and
I always receive emails from them saying “So and so updated their profile” or “So and so added new pics or friends” it’s like “Who cares?” None of those sites are INNOVATING like my site http://www.upcrowd.com. On mine at least you can make multiple fan pages, have 75 song MP3 players, add Mp3s or WAVS to pics, add soundbourds, custom icons that work, etc – that pages can be about whatever you want including funny characters or profiles. I think MySpace is eventually going the way of Friendster. Eventually they will probably remove all that stuff too. Check out my site and you’ll see it’s way better than any of them and I don’t even have any financial backing – which is a problem because I can’t advertise! I really did program my site myself! LOL!