I deleted my Friendster account.

May 26

Technology Comments

Have you deleted your Friendster account too? Friendster was the first popular social networking website in the US, and the first one I ever joined, way back in 2002. Through some missteps on their part and the rise of MySpace and Facebook, they’ve completely lost any hold on America.

My Friendster account was stagnating…the only emails I would get from it were notifications of new spam messages from fictional vixens.

The Three E’s

Why wasn’t Friendster working for me? And more broadly, what makes a social networking site valuable to anyone? My view is that there are 3 behaviors that create value for members of a social network: expressing, engaging, and exploring.
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Blog in flux.

May 26

Meta Comments

I’m trying some new things visually here, based off of the Magazeen WordPress theme developed by Smashing Magazine and WeFunction.com. I’ll be customizing things over the next few weeks as I get things up and running.