Friendster Focuses Its Marketing Efforts in Asia
Friendster is definitely a big hit here in Asia, over MySpace and Facebook accounts. I find more Philippine companies and local celebrities putting up and maintaining their own Friendster profiles and other accounts. Almost everyone that I meet asks me for my own Friendster profile. I think that David Jones, Friendster USA vice-president for marketing, made a good decision to direct efforts here in Asia than competing with MySpace and Facebook.
photo credit: SwedishMel (SXC)
I had been keeping my Friendster profile for several years after a friend introduced me to it. I got tired of updating it, but I decided not to take it off. Now, almost everyone has an account – at least for those who are computer literate. It is also common for me to meet guys even at their 40s with their own Friendster account.
I tweaked my new Facebook account yesterday and I had to admit that it is a lot better than Friendster – especially if you are a blogger. One thing I like is that I get to have my profile updated from various feeds like my posts at this blog, my StumbleUpon and Digg reviews, YouTube accounts and a lot others. I like its connectivity with other designs. I just hope Friendster would catch up on this and would not miss the growing number of English bloggers. It could be a lot tiring to be maintaining a lot of profiles around the web.
This ABS-CBN News Online article says a lot about their efforts in Asia. Friendster is still hot in the Philippines. I do not think it users will be convinced to switch to other networking sites and leave their hours-worked profiles and friends in Friendster.
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betchai
August 19th, 2008 at 11:03 pm #
wow, i never knew all those advantages of facebook over friendster. i had several invitations to join facebook but i am too lazy to open many accounts and i stick to friendster. thatnks for posting this, i’ll try to look at facebook. though I do not know about stumple upon, diggs, etc since I am so clueless I guess when it comes to social networking blogging. I just signed up for entrecard less than 2 weeks ago. thanks for posting this, it is really very informative.
Gem
August 19th, 2008 at 11:30 pm #
Thanks betchai!
I’m beginning to like Facebook. It’s lovely, all the blogs feeds, stumbles, diggs and so on… goes to my profile.
I would not mind having you as one of my earliest friends in Facebook.
betchai
August 20th, 2008 at 3:17 am #
Oh wow, thanks, Gem. I am right now like you busy with tweaking my blog, unlike you, I am so IT challenged that it takes me more than a half day just to add a simple page
, I add a page to link my two blogs ( SD and Beautiful World), I believe I am just technically challenged, not really dumb 
, hehe. And I am supposed to be busy now with my course syllabus and course schedule since back to school work next week 
, and here I am, still blogging, 
. I will really try to look at Facebook when I get the time and will look for you 
. Thanks for the invitation, Gem.
Brenna
November 17th, 2009 at 10:39 am #
Friendster is slowly decreasing its popularity due to the competition with other social networking sites. In order to put back its popularity, they should enhance more features to make it more user-friendly.