On May 31, Friendster will wipe out all photos, blogs, shout-outs, and testimonials in everyone’s profiles. This is a radical move which hopes to put them on track to transforming from a generic Social Networking into a site that’s focused more on gaming and music for Asia. While a lot of bloggers and tech analysts say that this is Friendster saying goodbye and this is the “death of the pioneer SNS”, I think that this is the only thing they can do to actually survive and maybe even florish in the age of Facebook.
Scale of Facebook
Facebook will continue to dominate the scene primarily because of the resources that they have at their disposal. They have more engineers and IT folk compared to other companies which means they can deliver changes and updates faster than anyone. If Friendster were to hold it’s course of just being a site that holds old photos and testimonials then it will just die a slow death. It needs to offer something different and unique so that you’ll actually visit it again and again.
I worked for Friendster before and I sincerely wish the company all the best as well as all of the brilliant Filipinos who are employed there as well.
For more information on how to preserve your data, check out: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/26/social-network-pioneer-friendster-to-erase-all-user-photos-blogs-and-more-on-may-31/
Haven’t been in there for a while now. Then again, I was just forced to join Friendster before (much like how I ended up signing up for Facebook). It’s just that Facebook keeps coming up with really neat things to do…even if I detest their UI.
After how many years and this SNS had been very popular in our country, now it’s the time to say Good Bye!
It will be back, hopefully much better.
I can still remember saying “uy testi mo ko ah, testi rin kita” haha… Hope friendster could come back in SNS big time and develop something new rather than improving something other SNS already have.
Hi Everyone, Friendster is closing down because a new product direction is coming up end june / early july . The new product will be SGN which means social gaming network. So hang on there I am doing a draft on what you can expect on the new site.
Chill!
i want the old one
.. the whos view me.. comments.. message.. my photos.. please bring back the old one 
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its stupid!!!
please bring back the photo album!!!! big pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, all the pictures are memorable!!!
Wat the F*ck D: Now I can’t get those old Pictures back.. How could they just fucking erase those photos…so stupid…they didn’t have to do that…..GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZ so disappointed with friendter…:( ):