Friendster

English Etymology From en friend ster. Noun en Internet historical A friend on the social networking site Friendster. en Nora Koch Social networking a mouse click away w:The Philadelphia Inquirer 175th year 123 1 October 2003 E1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/199375590/ Count my Friendsters: 48 with 4 pending. en Cliff Landis Friending our Users: Social Networking and Reference Services Sarah K. Steiner; M. Leslie Madden The Desk and Beyond: Next Generation Reference Services Chicago, Ill. w:Association of College and Research Libraries 2004, danah boyd, quoted in 2008 81 978-0-8389-0964-5 danah boyd, speaking about the social networking site Friendster, shows that users are aware that there is a difference between friends and Friends: “Overheard conversations might include statements such as ‘She’s not my friend, but she’s my Friendster’ and ‘Did you see that Alex is Drew’s Friendster? (boyd 2004). en Spin 20 2 February 2004 18 DON’T MESS WITH ME OR MY 346 FRIENDSTERS / Is Friendster more addictive than crack? Shit, yeah (“Can We Still Be Friendsters?” November)! Todd Dalton “I’d love to give Dave Matthews a makeover to look like a goth singer circa 1983. Only then would I accept him as my Friendster.” Audrey Levy en w:Chuck Klosterman Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story Scribner 2005 164 978-0-7432-6445-7 Uma Thurman hugs me good-bye, and we agree to become Friendsters. en Laura Steele Do you want to be my Friendster? w:South Bend Tribune 17 April 2005 A1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/512334874/ Do you want to be my Friendster? en Anna Broadway Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity Galilee 2008 212 978-0-385-51839-0 But once I’d clicked the acceptance button—and found out it was not Hippie but our other, Virginia connection that inspired Posse Pal’s overture—I found myself wondering whether I might find Poster Boy among his Friendsters. But when I responded by asking about those mission trips I’d heard about—and mentioning my own excursion to India—Poster Boy fell silent, though he added me to his Friendsters. en Rachel A. Sauerbier Social Networking August E. Grant; Jennifer H[arman] Meadows Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals 13th w:Focal Press 2012 section IV (Networking Technologies) 276 978-0-240-82456-7 It was Abrams’ original intention to have a website that hosted pages for close friends and family to be able to connect, not as a virtual popularity contest to see who could get the most “Friendsters” (Milian, 2009). A user of the social networking site Friendster. en Esquire 2004 44 and 46 Most Friendsters aren’t trying to meet anyone they don’t already know; Friendsters seem totally comfortable with strangers assuming they cheat on their wives and sketch portraits of unicorns in their free time, but they don’t want anyone to think they watch According to Jim unironically. For those unfamiliar with the site, the big draw within the Friendster universe is the testimonial, in which other Friendsters post enthusiastic endorsements of your relative awesomeness. en w:David Pogue; J.D. Biersdorfer The Internet: The Missing Manual O’Reilly Media, Inc. 2006 332 0-596-52742-X You also get your own email inbox on the site, as shown in Figure 17-1, which you can use to send notes to other Friendsters. (This is a safer way to meet new people than passing out your email address to online strangers.) en Meredith G. Farkas Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online Medford, N.J. w:Information Today 2007 113 978-1-57387-275-1 Friendster also lets users create individual blogs, share photos and video, post to discussion boards, and chat with other Friendsters. en Matthew Fraser; w:Soumitra Dutta Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World Wiley 2008 36 978-0-470-74014-9 Most “Friendsters” – as the site’s members were called – had joined the site, in keeping with its name, to validate themselves socially by collecting a maximum number of “friends”. en John K. Waters The Everything Guide to Social Media: All You Need to Lnow about Participating in Today’s Most Popular Online Communities Adams Media 2010 1-4405-0631-0 The deal put a Friendster app on the Yahoo! website, promotional placements for Yahoo! products on Friendster, enchaned search results for Friendster user profiles and Friendster Fan Profiles within Yahoo! Search, and the ability of Friendsters to link their accounts on the social network with their Yahoo! accounts. An account on the social networking site Friendster. en w:danah boyd Autistic Social Software w:Joel Spolsky The Best Software Writing I 2005 42 1-59059-500-9 Consider the hundreds of students from Singapore and Indonesia who create Friendsters for their teachers so that they can write testimonials about them. en Jasper Flores Aquino (Kuya Jap) Poems for You Bloomington, Ind. iUniverse, Inc. 2010 978-1-4502-7417-3 You are the profile picture in my Facebook; you are my only friend in my Friendster. en Amy Bartner the burning question: If you could recycle/redo/reuse anything in this city, what would it be and how would you do it? Metromix The Indianapolis Star 19 May 2011 4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/126277960/ I really, really want to go back in time and recycle my Friendster.