Some Facts About Friendster

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Most of us may have been familiar with FS (Friendster), especially teenager. Some people use Friendster to connect with their friends, partly to offer products that they sell. Through FS, people can connect with other people in different countries. As claimed in its site, Friendster is a leading global social network emphasizing genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends.

With more than 85 million members worldwide, Friendster is a leading global online social network service. Friendster is focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important to them. Online adults, 18 and up, choose Friendster to connect with friends, family, school, social groups, activities and interests. Friendster prides itself in delivering an easy-to-use, friendly and interactive environment where users can easily connect with anyone around the world via https://www.friendster.com/ and m.friendster.com from any Internet-ready mobile device. Friendster has a growing portfolio of patents granted to the company on social networking, with more expected over the next several months.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Friendster is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, IDG Ventures, and individual investors

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The Friendster site was founded in Mountain View, California, United States by Jonathan Abrams in March 2002, and is privately owned. Friendster is based on the Circle of Friends and Web of Friends techniques for networking individuals in virtual communities and demonstrates the small world phenomenon. It currently has more than 85 million members worldwide and is mostly used in Asia.

Based on Alexa.com, Friendster ranked 2nd most visited website in the Philippines while Yahoo! is the most visited website in the Philippines, and third party friendster-layouts.com is 16th. It is estimated that nearly 90 percent of internet users in the Philippines have Friendster accounts. David Jones, vice president for global marketing of Friendster, said that "the biggest percentage of users is from the Philippines, clocking in with 39 percent of the site's traffic."

Also, it caters to men and women interested in meeting people due to different reasons. Such reasons are: looking for friends; looking for activity partners; relationship with men; relationship with women; or just looking around.

And below are some facts about Friendster

1. Friendster is bigger today than ever before - there are over 70 million registered members visiting us from over 75 countries globally!
2. Friendster is now the 8th largest website on the planet in terms of traffic, serving over 18 billion page views per month
3. Friendster is a leading website in many Asian countries and is now the #1 most visited site in the Philippines and Indonesia and the #2 most visited site in Singapore and Malaysia according to Alexa
4. Friendster is growing rapidly in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Taiwan,Japan, Korea, and China.
5. Over 80 thousand people have joined Friendster in the last 24 hours
6. Friendster continues to add new features and build a global community for friends to connect, share and network with one another
7. Friendster has recently launched: Apps on Friendster: Add Apps to your profile - music, photo slideshows, and more!
   
8. Multiple Languages: Users now have a choice of English, Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Korean, and Spanish to navigate the site, enter content and use features.
9. Fan Profiles: Enable entities like bands, musicians, artists, models, non-profits, athletes, websites and venues to build a fan base.
10. Classifieds: Lets users search and post listings for free and access locally targeted classifieds
11. Schools in over 10 NEW countries including: Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, India, Malaysia, Norway, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, United Kingdom, and The United States

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