Joho the Blog: I'm out of Friendster

September 01, 2004

I'm out of Friendster

I've quit. I don't ever use it. I don't have a pressing need to be registered at a site for daters and people with "open" marriages. I wasn't impressed with the CEO throwing Friendster condoms into the audience after giving a talk. I have a problem with the site's disrespect for the implicit. And then Friendster fired an employee for blogging. Click here to go to the cancellation form, if you're so inclined. (Thanks to Jeremy Zawodny for the cancellation link. And here's a great post by Jon Udell.)

Posted by D. Weinberger at September 1, 2004 02:53 PM

Comments

I think I have a friendster account. I wanted to see how it compared to Orkut. It looked pretty weak so I never went back. As far as Orkut itself, the one compelling thing that keeps me going back are the communities where people engage in threaded discussions about whatever interests them. This is essentially the same thing that draws me to slashdot.org and plastic.com - only while those sites are largely news recyclers, Orkut communities are open-ended discussions about anything. For me, it's all about threaded web-based discussions, not who's friends with whom. It's handy to have a profile so you can express yourself and see something about who you're discussing stuff with, but the linking seems unnecessary and forced.

Posted by: scott | September 1, 2004 08:54 PM

I was just thinking of how I really should delete my stupid Friendster account. Funny to come across this entry now. Thanks for the link.

Posted by: Már | September 3, 2004 09:27 PM

Well that is why I use other small community sites such as paljunction.com and others.

Friendster wants to have a monopoly, but I guess they can't!

Cheers,
Jlo

Posted by: Jlo | September 14, 2004 04:42 PM

Thanks for the info.
Any idea how to get out of myfriendsonline.be?

Posted by: tom | May 27, 2006 11:22 AM