Apr 18

So I was having a conversation with my brother this morning over breakfast and we were talking about how the downfall of Friendster came to be. As we all know, the start of these social networking sites was single-handedly put together by the power of Friendster. We now have fifty more social networking sites that are functioning with their different purposes, most of them pretty much the same, with some even purely useless and redundant.

Now the top two leading social networking sites are Facebook and Myspace, according to recent surveys. As a consumer, I don’t see any other feasible reason for this, but it is perhaps the interface of Friendster that you can easily personalize. The network is indeed user-oriented — which appeals to many people, but it can also appear to be one of the reasons for this site’s plunge down the seas. Browsing thru the current users of Friendster, a lot has changed since its advent some five years ago. Majority of its users are now from Asia, and it seems the rest of the world have moved on to Facebook and Myspace. That takes up a huge sum of users altogether and now there is a huge gap the company has given up, they once tried to save, with no positive results shown.

Only the population of Asia versus the Europe and the United States combined is clearly a battle of big and small.This is of course just me speaking, but try it. Log on and see whos on Friendster. Log on and see whos on Facebook and Myspace.

Now here comes Socializr, another creation of the catalyst of social networking, Jonathan Abrahams came up with to redeem his name as the pioneer in social networking sites. I will come back for more information on this. See for yourselves.

http://www.socializr.com