Friendster?

[redbird]

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?

Comments

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

They've gotten better at screening the offensive stuff. And have had a couple of incidents early on similar, but not as nasty as what befell juliebata. Though I guess some people may be looking for someone who wants a digit shoved up their anus. I just hope they use a finger cott.

Anyway, it's always something that happens to any sort of community site. You have to deal with the idiot suburban kids who show up and crap all over everything. Someday we'll have 'black ice' we can use as a baseball bat upside their heads.

I've been on Friendster since January. I was asked to beta test by a friend of one of the founds. It's been interesting to watch as friends from different circles arrive in waves. Right now the 'fandom' cadre appears to be arriving now.

Of course, once you link with Jon Singer, you'll be 'related' to everyone in Friendster space.

The more interesting effect of 'interests' on Friendster is that I've gotten messages from out of the blue from "Buffy" and "Sopranos" fans in the UK asking for current season spoilers.

I use my .mac address for Friendster, and Apple uses one of the commercial spam weapons systems (Brightmail?), so I've not had a problem with unsolicited mail.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had a couple of very minor incidents myself (morons with offensive names doing mass friending attempts--probably junior high school guys, from the looks of it) but nothing more than that.

It's certainly nothing to blame Friendster for. As you say, any community has those idiots. The test is how Friendster dealt with them, and as far as I can tell, their response was quite effective, because nothing like that has happened since.

Oh, and spam. I actually used my primary personal email address, silly me, and have Not Been Spammed. Yet.