New face of Friendster

Have you ever think the time when Facebook has not yet launch and Friendster eats up some of your time connecting with your friends? Well this article  will face again the new face of  Friendster now and look back how it transform from Social networking site to social gaming website.

 

I remember the time that everyone wants to have an account in Friendster (FS). Those were times that you need to find your long lost classmates, friends, cousins, and persons you want to know more about him/her.

Though I would say that Facebook is a late bloomer in the Philippines, until now many Filipinos are still addicted and supporting this great innovation of Mark Zuckerberg.  It has been launched way back 2004, that time many Filipinos still prefer to use Friendster due to its complexity. For the benefit of knowing who the founder of FS is, he is Jonathan Abram. 

At first Friendster rocks netizens because of its easy to use and navigate pages. It gives you a normal views and use of current facebook.

Lately, Friendster became a social gaming website. Now it is based in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia being owned by MOL Global that has been operates in Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines. Its re launched makes it more promising that gains over 115 million users according to Wikipedia. And recently last year it was recognized as one of the hottest Silicon Valley Companies.

Here’s trivia information from Wikipedia.com on the Site Transformation

In June 2011, Friendster shifted from social networking site to a social entertainment site which focuses on gaming and entertainment. The accounts are unchanged and still existing. However, all the photos, messages, comments, testimonials, shoutouts, blogs, forums and groups that the users may have had in the past may no longer be part of their Friendster account. An exporting tool is provided to back up the information of the user account. This tool has an ability to export photos to Flickr and Multiply. For other details please click here .

Now that Friendster creates new trends for social entertainment website, it’s about time to try it for the second time and enjoy the entertainment of gaming.

Photo (friendster logo) courtesy of Mashable.com

Photo (New friendster image) courtesy of friendster.com
Photo (Jonathan Abram) courtesy of businessinsider.com

Photo (Mark Zuckerberg) courtesy of otrsportsonline.com 

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