Something about friendster

This is something I got from my Friendster message board. I found it rather interesting and would love to share it with my readers who are friendster user. I bet they would agree on this reality ordeal.

Hello. I'm Dia and I'm a Friendster-holic.
I've been a member since Jun 2003 (apparently!)
I tried so many times to quit but somehow I
still can't find the willpower to just stop! I
managed to get through 5 days without login on
to Friendster but I knew I was just fighting
the 'emptiness' I felt inside during those days.

Finally, I gave in (yet again!), to the power of
Friendster. With itchy fingers, I logged on,
waited for the longest minute of my life and
they asked me to log on again! I did as much as
sighed and logged on again. Finally, I could
view my profile after 5 days! And with a glee of
excitement, I saw "3 new friends
confirmation", "6 new messages" and "2 new
testimonials"!

Sounds familiar? I am sure that like me, many of
you out there suffer the same fate or shall we
say, addiction, as I do! There's just something
about Friendster which makes you feel that you
just have to log on even though it may take
ages, or sometimes you cannot even view your own
messages or sometimes you can't even view your
own friends! But when you log on and there are
messages or testimonials or new friends waiting
for your confirmation, somehow it just makes
your day. Why is that so? Good question! One
which I have yet an answer for.

Sometimes it's a laugh reading other people's
profiles. Some created it for their own
amusement and I'm sure for us too ? I've read
some profile, and under occupation it read :
pornstar or dangdut dancer!

It seems that in Friendster, there's also a
race. A race to see how many friends you have
and how many friends your friends have! Ok,
what's up with that? So what if you have 300
friends! It's not like you'll get a trip to
somewhere or a platinum card, right? (That line
was actually taken from a friend of a friend's
profile, by the way. I quoted it because there
was a lot of truth to it!). It is just to tell
people that you have that many friends and I am
sure, at least 30 or 40% of them, you don't even
know! You just add them for the sake of
multiplying your quantity of friends. Right?

Testimonials. It's just a way for people to
somehow 'shine' by asking their friends to
butter them up so that they can butter their
friends by writing a yummylicious testy (as it's
called in Friendster language) for them. In a
way, testimonials are just like the saying, "you
scratch my back and I'll scratch yours".

Even with the parody of Friendster, the likes of
myspace and Malaysian version of Friendster,
kawanster, people still stick with Friendster!
It's like a 'cyber drug' that you can't get
enough of. Even when it's nearly always lagging,
and the difficulty you have to go through just
to check your profile, or upload your pictures,
or check your friends, people still keep login
on to Friendster.

That is the mystery of it all,
why do people still login on to Friendster? I
guess, There's Something About Friendster.

p/s- Hmmm...I wonder if the Friendster people had put some sort of spell on some of the users so that we are under trance when we surf the Friendster website. Unfortunately it included me, myself!

+posted by arkarnax @ 10:44 PM