So what happened to Friendster?

For almost 3 days, I could not log in to my Friendster account. It's always temporary maintenance or if I get in, some of my friends are no longer on the list. Good thing FS is back on track and I have already opened it today after a 3-day hiatus. Anyway on that 3-day vacancy, in my observation many were migrating to other social networking sites, particularly Facebook. I've got more than 6 friends who suddenly became an FB addict in 3 days time. I also have received an invitation to Tagged.Hmmm...looks like Friendster has so much to work on by now. This problem also showed that Filipino's have become a social networking addicts by now.

Please read below why Friendster is having problems.I got this from a bulletin of a Friendster friend Csel.

The REAL REASON why Friendster's having problems

"Five million Filipinos can’t find their friends this morning, because Friendster is down. Jim Ayson’s contact at the social networking service says the downtime is due to a power outage at Friendster’s US data center.

To be fair, Friendster is trying to engage the local blogosphere in a key geographic market. Most of their users are in the Philippines, where I also happen to be based. They invited me to a roundtable with their marketing guy the other day, but I was too busy to come. Nevertheless, all the marketing in the world cannot make up for service outages.

Of course, Facebook is now the world’s number one social network, so we’ve still got that to keep up with our friends. I’m going to watch the traffic stats on this post to see if anyone still cares about Friendster.

Details are slim, but apparently it was an entire site outage. Due to this outage, Friendster is offline right now."

Porn Traffic Is Now Dying

Got this report from a blog, I have to say this is a good news. It says here that social networking sites like multiply, friendster, facebook and myspace has invaded the web and have caused the low traffic for porns since last year. So kids these days are into meeting new pals and getting reunited with long lost friends and family! Check out the report:

Bob Caswell noted that Social Networking sites dethrones Sex sites in terms of traffic based on the report published by the Economist, and shown by the graph below:



However, Joe Duck pointed out that we must consider the fact that one of the key factors of social networking is dating and meeting people.No wonder why lot of people are now taking advantage of social networking. Even porny-people tried to take advantage of it.

Davao Jocks on the web

One of the good things about the internet, particularly social networking sites like Friendster, Myspace and Facebook is that they were able to connect friends, colleagues at work, family members and schoolmates, even from way back when.

This featured friendster account http://www.friendster.com/davaojerks, has over 100 disc jockeys of Davao City. So if you wanna know what's up with DJ Monica, Big Joe, Joe Fisher, Paul Wiggy and all the other DJ's of Davao, even from early years of radio, just check this site and you'll find them all here. I still have to find Inday Tanini though, or is he/she considered a DJ?

You may also add them up, if you are a bonafide Davao DJ at present or even if your no longer connected with the radiolandia. Just add them up using their e-mail - davaojerks2006@yahoo.com.ph