All New Friendster

It's been awhile since the Social Networking websites emerge in the Philippines and has become a household name to everyone and been part of the our daily lives. Me, myself is one of those many people that is drawn to social networking as it is nice to meet friends, old friends, common friends, old acquittance, classmates in primary, secondary, and even college, crush, ex boyfriend and almost everyone. you have the chance to meet on a social networking websites.  Social network is define as social structure made up  by individual or organization which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, relationship of beliefs and even sexual relationship through a platform or a site that focuses on building and reflecting a social networks or social relations among people or what we called social networking services. This social networking services has a lot of types or category depending on what location of country you are or what kind of social networking you preferred the like of adults websites. One of the most popular social networking not just here in the Philippines but all over the world is Facebook, Freindster and twitter. 

Facebook is one of the most popular social networking website nowadays. Who would not know this website as everyone was hooked already and you will not be considered "IN" if you don't have any account on this website, There was even a film that has been made just recently which entitled The Social Network, starred by Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, the creator and founder of facebook with his college roomate and fellow computer science students. The film bagged some of the award in the recently concluded 2011 Oscar. facebook was launch on February 2004 and is operated and privately owned by Facebook Inc and according to some reports that as of 2011 this social network has 600 million active users.

On the other hand, Friendster another social networking website was founded to create a safer, more effective environment for meeting new people by browsing user profiles and connecting to friends, friends of friends and so on, allowing members to expand their network of friends more rapidly than in real life, face-to-face scenarios. It is founder by  Jonathan Abrams and Peter Chin in 2002 in Morgan Hill, California before the even the launch and adoption of the websites like MySpace, facebook, and others. It  was went live in 2002 and quickly millions of users respond and adopted the websites.

But upon the arrival of facebook websites many of its active users especially here in the Philippines are one by one transferred to facebook and in my person opinion these are the one of the main reason why the friendster just recently announced that they will be reformatting the websites. according to the report posted in yahoo.com that many of friendster users has only until May 31 to save their accounts contents such as photos, testimonial, and blogs otherwise the user's will lose all of those.  According to friendster notices to its many active users that the the account itself will not be deleted and it will be the same log in and passwords information tot he new reformatted friendster. apart from the friendster log in information that will be preserved are the user's list of friendsn and basic profile information. However the all the photos, messages, comments, testimonials, shutouts, blogs, forums and groups that member have ill no longer be part of account May 31, 2011. and to help the users to save their account content friendster offered an application to help download or export photos and blogs securely to a third party sites such as Flickr or Multiply. Users in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia can expect the application to be available in a few days after April 14. it was stated in a recent report that though Facebook is a site where people can communicate with and find out what their real-life friends are doing, Friendster will be the place where people can meet new friends and play games and enjoy music with them. The pioneering social network will continue to innovate and be at the forefront of the social networking scene. so expect that there will tougher compettion among the two social networking website and amidst all of these tight competition people will be the first to benefit as they will be having more options for social networking.