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Friendster acquired by MOL

“Friendster finds a welcome buddy in Malaysia” , “Friendster Ships Off To Malaysia”, “Friendster found a new home in MOL”, are just some of the head line of the story. There are analysts saying this acquisition is positive, well, I do disagree on that. 

Anyone living in non-stone age-era should know that Friendster is no longer the social networking of choice among every Earthling. Though it(Friendster) was the one that defines social networking back in 2001, it was superseded by Myspace and Facebook years after. A quick check on the user database shows that majority of Friendster’s social networkers are made up of Asian. South east Asia make up a big chunk of the big pie.

Friendster claimed that there are over 100million registered users. Buy “” online While this is true, it was in fact kinda misleading. There are 100million users indeed, but what are the numbers for active users? Active users simply were defined as those that update their profile at least once every few months, log in every day, send messages across network, add friends, chat…etc.  I used to login Friendster everyday a while back. But since my friends asked me to migrate over to Facebook, my Friendster account remained in hibernate mode. None of my Friends ever forward message or did anyone added me in Friendster list since n-years ago (n = 1 or 2 years probably).

The thing is, it was not a good deal from my opinion.  They need to come up with something to entice internet networkers. Spams, viruses and malware are some of the major reasons people stay away from Friendster. Apart from these, advertisement is also one nuisance which kinda irk me Brand “” in Friendster. Advertisements are ok, but please, make it small. The ads were done in heavy flash content and covered half of page in some instances.

All in all, what’s the outcome of the acquisition is yet to see. Analyst would say this is a good move while I bet to differ. Well, I could be wrong in some way. But one thing is for sure, Friendster is losing market share(networker share to be precise) every minute to Facebook.

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