California, Gizmology – After a long hiatus, Friendster is rumored to be rising again from the grave. For those of you who have used this social media platform in its heyday, you must have used its flagship features. Anything?
Started to exist in 2002, Friendster with the domain Friendster.com is arguably one of the phenomenal sites after Google. This site was presented by a businessman named Jonathan Abrams with the aim of connecting users with friends, family, and making new friends on the internet.
In addition, Friendster also brings users together with people who share similar interests, backgrounds, and geographic locations. Interaction can be through message posts, games, blogs, and app sharing.
In its time, Friendster was arguably the most powerful platform for people to represent themselves, their interests, and their businesses in the online community. Of course, before the threat of MySpace and Facebook that slowly subverted his existence until he said goodbye from cyberspace on May 31, 2011.
All the memories that have been posted are indeed deleted from the page, but in the memory of users, the good things with Friendster will not disappear. If so, Gizmin will make you remember.
Especially now that there is news that Friendster will return again. Yes, if you visit Friendster.com today, then you will find signs of the social media site’s return, as in the following screen shot:
Friendster’s Key Features
So, are you looking forward to using Friendster again? Before the site really returns, let’s reminisce with its signature features!
Profile Personalization
Friendster allows users to personalize profiles with backgrounds, favorite music, and custom designs that can be tailored to the user’s personality.
Friendship Connection
Users can create a friend list and display friend connections on their profile.
Testimonial
This feature allows friends of the user to leave comments and testimonials that can be viewed by the public. This feature is exactly what is on LinkedIn now, only the difference is that it is more about work matters and not other personal matters.
Bulletin
Allows users to share updates, stories, and recent activities with their friends. In its time, it was a way for users to showcase their daily activities, before Facebook came along with its Status feature.
Privacy Control
Friendster gives users privacy options to control who can see their profile and content. Jadi bakal ketahuan siapa saja yang sedang kepo mampir ke laman pengguna.
User Search
This facility makes it easy for users to search for their friends by name, community, hobby, school, etc.
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Well, those are the features that were once on Friendster. Do you still remember it? Do you think Friedster needs to bring these features back?
