I’m sure plenty of you have a Friendster account right. I do! I think it’s a great online tool to meet new ‘friends’.
Well what led to this entry specifically about Friendster is how the hell a person can have multiple accounts. For example, if a person has 5-6 accounts, that means he/she has over 5000 plus profiles in his/her ‘Friends’ section.
You can have so many friends mah?
So popular seh. When I see such accounts I chuckled as I think these people are just adding any Tom, Dick and Harry to the list.
And why? God knows …
I’m sure a few of you will have the usual ‘request for friend’ on Friendster. For me, I’ll usually look at the profile first if I know that person, and if I don’t know them, well I might or might not accept them as Friends. No ‘crazy’ fools in my account please.
My Friends list stands at nearly 400 now, and about a quarter of that, I probably know by them by direct contact. The rest …. random person, groupies, or even stalkers? Hahaha
And another issue … people do put ‘Not Anonymous’ when you view profiles lah! Let’s make Friendster more fun. Turn it on. It’s a dating site for god sake! For me I prefer to know who viewed my profile and if I do look at other people profile, that either shows your photo caught my eye …
or I’m ‘interested’ in someone and wish to know what’s the latest in their lives by checking their profile …
or I could be doing the tactic of letting that person know that I checked out them out by looking at their profile. And when they checked out mine, I’ll kinda intro myself! Hahaha …
so cheekopek right. Hey, it’s a ‘rough’ singles world out there.
Some of my friends even resort to logging out of Friendster, only then would they have the ‘balls’ to view that person profile they’re interested in. Funny right. You can really gauge a person is going through a phase just by looking at their profile status. Such as “It’s complicated” –> trouble times coming up.
Or “Married” –> means you found your soulmate. “Domestic Partnership” –> sounds like the guy wears the skirt, and the ladies wear the pants in this relationship, hahaha! I don’t usually meddle with those have “In a Relationship” status.
It can get messy, trust me
Also another thing, please put your own photo in your profile. You’re deceiving others and yourself by putting someone else’s photo. It’s a dating site lei, you’ll dash the hopes of some potential suitor if you were to meet up.
How are you gonna explain that … maybe “Kena langgar knocked down by lorry” perhaps?
But then again another alternative method, is getting to know people online is of course through the ‘old school’ method.
Be it in clubs, bumping into a girl, chatting up at the coffee house, etc. So which do you think works best? Online vs Real, meeting singles I mean …
Well anyway good hunting for all the singles out there …
i dunno why i got friendster acct for???
Meet old schoolmates
ahaha. yea, I do have friendster acc too. most of them are my close friends.. ;)
Owh, I have just added you. :p
dude. yes i’ve added you
wah you take pics with many celebs eh
Yahlor, i find it so pelik when people just add2 anyhow. I think they see it that the more friendster friends they have, means they’re more popular. uwekkk. bet they dont know 80% of their ‘friends’ lah.
i think it’s more of getting some ‘attention’, something that lacks in their real life perhaps
friendster have helped me to meet my old friends. frm pri school, tuition classes or even madrasah. for me it is not to make new friends. but there had been a few lah that i get to know since we share the same interests in arts.
and yes, all users should not allow anonymous viewing. what have u got to hide?
and uncle sha…. u are one cheekopek guy! hhahahaa. strategy konon =p
Same here, i found my old classmates there too! it serves both purposes, dating & social accounts
me cheekopek? haha i have to, at my age! expiry date coming up
I don’t think of Friendster as a dating site, although I have gone on a few dates with people I met on Friendster, these dates usually don’t go too well, and detecting a pattern, I don’t think I will ever meet a good long-term boyfriend through that site. I use it to keep track of friends old and new, and also as a short ‘about me’ page as it’s linked to my blog.
I know personally at least 90% of the friends in my list.
Well I’ve gotten some dates from there, so I can attest for me, its a dating site. Well i think the dating scene has ‘evolved’ and making/creating online profiles is part of the end-result. Won’t hurt to try meet new dates right.
90% is a good number, looks like you’re well connected with your friends. I don’t even know 2/3 of mine!
i s’pose i took a wrong step laz yr, for fear of being labelled “kak jannah sombong eh, tak add adik kat friendster…”. Hehz.
But i do remember exactly who are the ones that i do noe personally before the numbers snowballed. and in all that, i am so glad to have found my primary school mates. of cos, not to mention realize how terribly small sg is.
now i thot of facebook. for friends and contacts only.
I’m still hesitating on facebook. so many account to maintain. is it good facebook? tell me more
yeah sg is indeed small, everyone so ‘connected/linked’ to each other
yeah when i saw your profile, i went holy-crap, you got so many ‘friends’. i was glad that you added me. I was just wondering which poor chap you deleted to add me :-p
ha.. tons of unknown ppl in my friendster friends list to be honest. =p
hi5! … you popular lah
hello…omg. did not know u think of friendster as dating site….u so cheekopek!! now i know the REAL u. anyway, i am one of those anon pple who view profiles cos i dont have an account! and the farmer joke…told to me by sec2 training mate. didnt know it was an old joke…looks like ur website is going well. u get paid for all those entries advertising the supplements/lasik surg?
no la, frenster aso a place i update myself of my friends by viewing their profile or meet old sch mates which i’ve lost touch. wonderful tool eh
yes i get paid for some of my selected entries
i know u have this policy on not blogging on realtionships…but if u want to increase traffic here, writing abt some scandalous relationship u are in helps….
haha no thanks
Hahaa.. I oso got frensta acc.. Can we be fren? loL~
Sigh* bro.. Exams da bis. Dunno if can pull thru or not. Hows urs?
Now mcm slack to da max arr.. Hehehe~
ok sure, lets be fren. i’ll add you in my 12th account ok
now i pemalas seh … hope i ‘wake up’. need to find part-time job
i hardly go to friendster nwdays…
only to go there to add more fotos!!
wahahahahahahhha
you photowhore!
and I’m there mostly to read my horoscope and see my frens lastest pic..but now im so lazy…even thot of deleting..lost the novelty alrdy
horoscope? ada ker … ok i lookout for it
nah dun delete, go hiatus
when you come back, the instant you login & see your old retro pics, it will be fun
Wahahaha! Friendster is certainly a good place to spam oneself and getting to know more and more hot chickies for me. Ok… though not much hot chicks but I do had a few hot chicks that literally I know from there.
Hunting? I dunno if you call it hunting, I would term it as casual browsing for the sake of “Menikmati keindahan kewanitaan” so they say. Wahahaha~
well bro, some of the hot chicks unfortunately are guys masquerading as women! weirdos
haha to me it’s a hunt, aim, target, shoot … wahaha. juz kidding. kenalan2 jer. but so far i’ve not made any moves yet la. i macam malas these few months
my students fill up 1/2 of my friends list. I have taught since i was 17. And i used to teach secondary school, madrasah, primary schools.. so i have a lot more adding me up each day.
I think one day my friendster would die on its own. Unable to accomodate these kids. But it is also a good way for me to inform them stuffs, especially when i blog. Cos i know they read my friendster blog. So that friendster blog is with an agenda. HAHA. mcm propaganda gitu.
students? don’t frenster has a age limit of 18 right? they must have lied their age to register
well i’ve heard news of google wanna buy frenster for $40million to rival myspace.com
yeah spread propaganda thru frenster … power to the people sista! :-p
BUT I HATE FRIENDSTER. PEOPLE PHOTOSHOP TOO MUCH. THEY LOOK SO GOOD ON THE PICTURES .. IN EVERY ANGLE. THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE!! AND WHEN YOU DO MEET THEM SUCH A DISAPPOINTMENT – BLEARGH.
THE ONLY OTHER INDICATORS ARE THE WAY THEY TYPE THEIR INFORMATION OUT.
*okay, a bit emotional here *
The ones that crack me up is WhEn tHeY TyPe iN ThIS WaY. Shows the intrinsic personality of the person, for sure. And the level of maturity.
Then there are the lazy ones – like me – who fails to use the CapsLocks where they are supposed to be.
But there are the meticulous ones too. Proper grammar, syntax etc.
And there are those who really try to hard to get attention. You just have to look at their biodata, you would know.
Friendster encourages one to be superficial and shallow.
But it is – a form of entertainment.
I think I become a voyeur – kepo – loves to snoop around and se what people are doing and thinking in their lives.
Good material for my studies HAHA.
they should ban such writings, yeah can be annoying!
good account of the types of profiles or wackos you find at frenster
wat studies?
oh. just good material for *****ology.
wats the ****?
one of the -ology studies in HSS. :)
Aaah ok, HSS is cool .. gonna take GE next sem in my sch
haha, might bump into you perhaps.since , from your icon, you look like jamiel a bit when he was younger.
You know jamiel too? getting creepy here. he’s still young wat
so u’re saying my old me looks like a jamiel young, and jamiel is old now. so when jamiel gets really old does that mean i’ll look jamiel even younger days?
:-p
no i meant when jamiel was younger. Nothing creepy la, world is so small.
Haha, cute thought.
reverse aging eh :P
Hehehe, was juz kidding … the ‘opening’ was there, went to the ‘kill’
killer la you ni
Friendster, just to keep in touch. Ppl change hp number too often, thus if I need to contact long-lost friends, at least there’s Friendster.
Well, some would go ‘Look, I have 499 friends, I’m popular and look! He only has 99 friends, oh boring…”
glad i added you bro!
hoi banglah.
lol. i think i prolly know half of the people in my friendster. i do use other *special accts* when i view certain ppl’s acct. wahahaha. eh, but dont be sceptical about online dating. it’s a changing world out there. i met my bf through an online “dating” site. though when people ask, i say it’s through friend’s friend. LOL. the look on their faces when i say online dating site is bloody not worth the effort and the following explanation.
=D
u got other accounts? why dun wanna let the other party know u viewed them
yeah i met my ex thru online dating too, some dates there and indeed its hard to explain to people how ‘it’ works
Wah… long discussion in here. ;) Those celebs.. I just happen to meet them, hehe. So, i just share those photos in Friendster la. People saw those photos, and they would come to see my profile. And … you would saw a lot of links to lots of my work there. Lol.. Marketing in disguise la.
But still, most are my close friends la.
Indeed a good marketing tool … they might think you celeb manager or a celeb yourself!
Hope to see more
Really…I don’t think friendster is a dating site. It’s a site where you meet old and new friends…and if it turns out to be something more, then it’s a bonus…Personally, this is how I see it…but this is just my opinion…that’s why its called ‘friend-ster’ and not ‘date-ster’. Cool blog you got tho. Thumbs up!
True enough, it depends on each person I reckon, their motives and objectives.
I’ve meet my old schoolmates there myself
Sorry for the late reply, better late than never