Little by little, used-to-be loyal friendster fans are now leaving the latter, and now shifting to Facebook.
Friendster pioneered the social networking platform in 2002. It immediately gained popularity, especially with the younger generation as it enabled them to reconnect with old friends, as well as meeting new people online. For a couple of years, Friendster enjoyed continuously increasing network traffic, mostly coming from Asia, despite the launch of other networking sites such as my space and multiply.
Yet recently, Friendster hype is slowly deteriorating. Friendster loyalists are now being lured away to join Facebook. Facebook, being one of the newest social networking site, is quickly gaining popularity because of it's fresh yet simple look. There were a lot of new things to do with Facebook that are not being catered by friendster. The applications available make your stay online worthwhile and fun. Unlike Friendster, which is now saturated with teenagers whose perception of social networking is bragging about their profile and pictures, battle of the most number of superficial friends, facebook market stretches to a more mature audience, even young professionals are being hooked with FB.
I might say, Friendster slowed down on coming up with ideas to improve the site. For a user like me, it came to a point when I feel logging online is not so worth my time. There might be applications you could add on your profile, but compared to Facebook, they are way too slow. There were also a lot of security loopholes, spamming and scams. Facebook, being new in the industry, was able to anticipate such issues. More than focusing on connectivity, Facebook is continuously able to deliver in terms of interactivity.
Friendster should start doing their homework seriously. They need a lot of catching up to do, or they'll just be part of Online community history.
Friendster pioneered the social networking platform in 2002. It immediately gained popularity, especially with the younger generation as it enabled them to reconnect with old friends, as well as meeting new people online. For a couple of years, Friendster enjoyed continuously increasing network traffic, mostly coming from Asia, despite the launch of other networking sites such as my space and multiply.
Yet recently, Friendster hype is slowly deteriorating. Friendster loyalists are now being lured away to join Facebook. Facebook, being one of the newest social networking site, is quickly gaining popularity because of it's fresh yet simple look. There were a lot of new things to do with Facebook that are not being catered by friendster. The applications available make your stay online worthwhile and fun. Unlike Friendster, which is now saturated with teenagers whose perception of social networking is bragging about their profile and pictures, battle of the most number of superficial friends, facebook market stretches to a more mature audience, even young professionals are being hooked with FB.
I might say, Friendster slowed down on coming up with ideas to improve the site. For a user like me, it came to a point when I feel logging online is not so worth my time. There might be applications you could add on your profile, but compared to Facebook, they are way too slow. There were also a lot of security loopholes, spamming and scams. Facebook, being new in the industry, was able to anticipate such issues. More than focusing on connectivity, Facebook is continuously able to deliver in terms of interactivity.
Friendster should start doing their homework seriously. They need a lot of catching up to do, or they'll just be part of Online community history.
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