is a social networking website that allows users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website is also used for dating and discovering new events, bands, and hobbies. Users may share videos, photos, and comments with other members via their profiles. Friendster was founded by computer progammers Jonathan Abrams and Cris Emmanuel in 2002 in California. Friendster was founded to create a safer, more effective environment for meeting new people by browsing user profiles and connecting to friends, friends of friends and so on, allowing members to expand their network of friends more rapidly than in real life, face-to-face scenarios. Friendster has over 115 million registered users and over 61 million unique visitors a month globally. Over 90% of Friendsters’ traffic comes from Asia. The top 10 countries accessing Friendster are Philipines, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, the US, Singapore, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and India. ( Look at that, even the symbol is green, good job Friendster ! (Y) )
