Friendster is one of the 1st networking site in the internet. It was first introduced in 2002 and was launched on March 2003. It slowly gained popularity in the Southeast Asia through the Philippines. Friendster's Engineering Director Chris Lunt who was by then curious of the web traffic that usually happens at night who noticed that it was coming from the Philippines, and did you know that he trailed that it was Fil-Am marketing consultant Carmen Leilanie de Jesus as the first user who introduced Friendster to the Philppines.
Friendster was once the most visited website by Filipinos with almost 7 Million users. Their VP for global marketing David Jones said that the biggest percentage of their users is from the Philippines. Unfortunately, many Filipinos who loved Friendster left their account and are now on Facebook and their reason is that Friendster has a lot of technical problem and server delays. It was also been commented that it was a source of malwares such as "Koobface" worm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_in_the_Philippines
ABOUT FRIENDSTER
Founded on March 22, 2002 by computer programmers Jonathan Abrams and Cris Emmanuel in Mountain View, California. It was officially launched on March 2003 with $12 million investment by Kleiner, Caufield, Byers, Benchmark Capital and private investigators and was quickly adopted by 3 million users.
PURPOSE
To offer a safe and enjoyable environment for users to interact with friends as well as to meet new individuals.
Jonathan Abrams, now aged 40 was the founder of friendster. Abrams received a proposal from Goggle offering $30million for the site but turned it down and instead went the venture route taking $13million from Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers and Benchmark Capital. He now owns a bar and started a new networking site Socialzr.
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