Warganet Suddenly Miss Friendster

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JAKARTA - Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are indeed the world's favorite social media for netizens, including in Indonesia. Even when viewed on paper, the three social media data have millions to billions of active users around the world.

Even so, not a few netizens actually miss and miss Friendster's social media platforms. Yes, the social media that appeared in the mid-2000s were widely discussed by netizens to become a trending topic on Twitter.

Friendster face

Friendster, like Facebook, is a social media platform created by a Canadian programmer named Jonathan Abrams in 2002. In his day, Friendster was successful according to Venture Beat data in 2008, this platform has had 37.1 million monthly active users.

Friendster is the first social media that I have. 😂😂 I spent hours in internet cafes to create myspace. I didn't think that because of the arrival of Facebook, people left my friendster. Even though myspace is really cool. https://t.co/SHQeaT2kQM

- Miaa (@ pramia92) January 26, 2021

Many netizens look back on the signature features of Friendster. Among them are a testimonial feature that can post impressions and messages to people who are friends.

I don't know if anyone here has ever used Friendster, Gitu2 FS was the pioneer of social media. The principles of social media are here and are popular here. The most exciting feature is the testimonials feature, so you can give impressions and messages to people who are your friends. Who used to like Friendster's? pic.twitter.com/YSeCvDvjMl

- Mr Frost 🎙️ (@FriendlyFrost) January 26, 2021

Another unique feature that makes Friendster popular is the possibility for users to customize their home page and profile. Through a simple Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) code format, including allowing third parties to create unique codes to be embedded in Friendster.

Friendster: miss me? pic.twitter.com/zVhZLDNxpY

- Ais (@aiskhairun) January 26, 2021

As a result, Friendster's user profile page and home appearance can be customized at will. Others, referring to articles published by Motherboard, are widely liked by Friendster because there is no political debate and news on users' social media pages.

It's a shame Friedsnter's page is long gone. The social media platform was sold to Malaysian company-owned MOL Global, for $ 40 million in 2009.

After that, Friendster then turned into an online gaming website. Over time, Friendster's data and user profiles were deleted on May 31, 2011.