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([personal profile] redbird Jun. 14th, 2003 10:50 am)
Someone I'd been out of touch with for a while just sent me an invite to friendster. I have no reason not to trust Prentiss (in fact, if you're reading this and would like an LJ invite code, email me), but I would like more information about it.

So, if you've used it, what have your experiences been? Did they ask too many personal questions, have weird terms of service, or spam you? Did you get useful or amusing results from it? What else would you tell me?

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I joined a while ago, played with it for a few days, and forgot about it; the search mechanisms don't work well (i.e., you do an interests search for "programming languages" and you get everyone who lists "programming"), and as others have commented, it seems like mainly a dating service. Plus, even if it were more useful for meeting new friends, I'm just not the kind of person who would email someone and say, "hey, you're interesting, let's be friends" -- it has to happen more organically.

They do ask personal questions, but that's sort of the point of the service: so that people can find others who match a particular profile. I haven't gotten any spam from them, though, that I know of.
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