The sad tale of friendster

[MaxDepth]

NY Times Article

Not only is one of the lowest ranked social networking sites now (16th) and now missing the big payoff, but it shows the creator as a Silicon Valley loser.

Mr. Abrams drew his inspiration to create Friendster from a broken heart brought on by a failed relationship and the eternal lures of the mating dance.

?Basically, Jonathan wanted to meet girls,? said Mark J. Pincus, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who provided Mr. Abrams with some of the seed money to finance his project at the end of 2002. ?He told me himself, he started Friendster as a way to surf through his friends? address books for good-looking girls.?

 

[j00fek]

should have sold out

 

[PricklyPete]

Definitely an interesting article. Would certainly be a good academic study. I'm fairly distant from the social networking sites (never used one), so I'm not familiar with how popular Friendster was or still is...but very interesting.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

wasn't friendster among the first ones? The layout for it is a bit cluttered, but it doesn't have that bad rap like myspace does. I remember the friendster craze about 3 or so years ago, heh.

and ya, that is an interesting read.