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Amanda Egge's "Friendster Sucks"

Ruthless Reviews has a great
rant by Amanda Egge slamming Friendster: "My dog could build a better website than Friendster, granted my dog has an IQ of 130, but still he�s a fucking dog for crying out loud." Much of her complaints are about Friendster's persistent technical problems, but she also mentions Friendster's heavy-handed social controls:

Apparently Jonathan Abrams, the creator of Friendster, couldn�t handle the fact that people were having a little fun on his site so he sent in the Friendster black shirts to start deleting people�s pictures and profiles. Friendster was apparently not a place for "Fakesters" (fake profiles that pretended to be celebrities, schools, pets, presidents and the like.) For example, my friend Jody (who happens to be diabetic,) made a profile for Diabetes Bear (her childhood teddy bear,) that featured the small stuffed bear with a diabetic needle sticking out of its arm. The photo was deleted just days after she uploaded it. Other Fakester profiles have been deleted altogether, "suspended" for having a sense of humor.

Ross Mayfield and I threw a party a couple of years ago at the Emerging Technology conference where Marc Canter was ranting directly to Abrams about some of the same stuff. Egge and Canter are both fans of Myspace, and I'm heading over there myself to check it out.

jon posted this at 9:06 AM
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I know I joined Friendster and went there like two times. I have like three supposed "friends" on there and
I always receive emails from them saying "So and so updated their profile" or "So and so added new pics or friends" it's like "Who cares?" None of those sites are INNOVATING like my site www.upcrowd.com. On mine at least you can make multiple fan pages, have 75 song MP3 players, add Mp3s or WAVS to pics, add soundbourds, custom icons that work, etc - that pages can be about whatever you want including funny characters or profiles. I think MySpace is eventually going the way of Friendster. Eventually they will probably remove all that stuff too. Check out my site and you'll see it's way better than any of them and I don't even have any financial backing - which is a problem because I can't advertise! I really did program my site myself! LOL! :)

Posted by: Mark Taormino | July 13, 2007 6:10 PM