Friendster, MySpace, Face book and other popular social networking sites are changing the landscape of Internet community. Social networking sites have become a trendy thing on the Internet. According to Internet experts, these sites are also vulnerable to the next “new thing” since users can easily flock from one site to another. According to Prof. David Bell, the long term success of these social networking sites will depend on how they can retain the interest of their members. Social networking sites have a fast turn around where members can easily come and go. A good example is Friendster where it made a big hit in the year 2003 and generates millions of members. However, it has been overtaken by MySpace which success is considered phenomenal. This is mainly due to many features added by MySpace that entice many Friendster members to switch to MySpace. Experts also believe that migration can be attributed to the better functionality of the website.

Are you a Friendster user? If yes, how long have you been and how much do you know about Friendster? Just when you thought you already know Friendster, there are still things you need to know. Friendster was founded by Jonathan Abrams in Mountain View, California, USA on March 2002. Since then, Friendster grew tremendously and has become one of the hottest social networking sites on the Internet history. Friendster has more than 50 million users from around the world where the highest number of users is from the Philippines followed Malaysia and Singapore respectively. Friendster has been an instant hit and paves the way of the birth of social networking revolution.

Friendster received its patents in the year 2006 for a method and apparatus for calculating and acting upon relationships in a social network. Friendster with millions of members has become an online hang out place by many teenagers to share 

Millions of Friendster members can now enjoy classified ads feature on Friendster.com. With this new feature, members can post and responds to local and international postings for services, jobs, items for sale, community events and more. The about this Friendster feature is that it’s free and at the same time very easy to use. To use this Friendster service, simply go to classified ads, section and fill out the details of your post like the title, price, description and e-mail address. It has report abuse button where you can report false and malicious postings. Have you tried posting on Friendster classified section or never tried at all? Then start posting now.

It is undeniably true that  many Internet users are now networking online and thanks to the social networking sites that are mushrooming around the web./ Social networking websites include Friendster, MySpace, Orkut and Facebook. Many social networking websites are getting into the top of most visited websites. One good example is Friendster where it ranked number 1 in the Philippines and number 2 in Malaysia respectively. The main focus of social networking websites is to help Internet users to keep in touch with Friends, relatives and meet new faces.However, social networking sites don’t deepen intimacy and this is one of the major reasons why members should be cautions in dealing with people they meet online.

  Userplane, a company owned by America Online (AOL) has linked with the new developer program of Friendster. Userplane is a California-based firm which provides flash-based web chat and instant messaging feature for websites.  The firm is targeting online social networking sites like Friendster since the number of potential users is increasing.  Facebook, one the other hand, attracts many third party developers with this idea. In fact, there is an increasing number of projects on the web which is related to the creation of Facebook application. 

The popularity of social networking sites such as MySpace, Friendster and Multiply hit the Internet community by storm. These

social networking sites are now one of the most favorite sites among online users. The number of social networking sites joining the top 20 list by Alexa is apparently increasing. 
                                                            

One very nice feature of these sites is that it connects you to your network of friends. The question is, do these social networking sites help promote close intimacy among members and create a what we call “close friendship”?

According to the study of a British researcher, social networking sites are unlikely to promote close friendship. One of the reasons is that people still feel that they still need a face-to-face contact with the person in order to gain trust and confidence.This finding is based from the research of Dr. Will Reader of the Sheffield Hallam University in Northern England. He also noted thatalthough the number of people having friends on these sites is getting bigger and bigger. The real number of friends that can be considered close is approximately the same as in the face-to-face real world contact.

Do you often surf the Internet? If you do, then I am pretty sure that you already heard about MySpace and Friendster. MySpace and Friendster are just two of the famous online social networking sites today. Social networking sites have tremendously and become one of the most popular websites nowadays. This is obviously true since there are now more and more social networking sites that are joining in the top 20 list by Alexa.

Registering an account is the first thing to do to join any social networking sites. Becoming a member enables you to enjoy the features of these websites such as creating your own profile page and inviting friends to your network. These social networking sites are free and easy to use. The best example is Friendster.com where you can create and edit your profile page. If you have knowledge on HTML programming, you can enhance your Friendster layout page.
Social Networking sites give members a wide variety of keyword phrases making you easily find other members nearest in your city or town and invite them to join your network.
MySpace, on the other hand offers more secure features by providing the user the ability to set their profile in private. This is a big step towards security especially among minor members.

Other features like collection of music and videos, horoscopes, careers and others make these online social networking sites even more exciting.