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Is Friendster copying Facebook?

Posted on: 12/06/09 by Neps Firmalan

With social-networking site Friendster changing its look and adding new features, is it really trying to copy Facebook to regain lost ground? We'd let you judge for yourself first. 

Log-in page

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Facebook

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Friendster

Home page

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Facebook
 
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Friendster

Profile page

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 Facebook

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Friendster

Have you spotted the similarities/differences?

If you've noticed, the resemblance is really in the home pages. Friendster now has an Activity Stream which is the same as its rival's News Feed. If you're a Friendster user, you can see if your contacts have uploaded new photos, added new friends, received new comments, added applications, changed their primary photos, and just about any updates on what they're doing. You can even leave a comment on, say, a photo right there and then. On the upper right side of the home page are the latest bulletins and birthdays, same as Facebook's Events.

The log-in pages are different. You know from first glance that Friendster is really going after the younger crowd. The colorful, artsy look is in contrast with Facebook's more formal, mostly "blue and white" log-in page.

And when it comes to Profile pages, besides Friendster's move to make the primary pics bigger, it really hasn't changed the page. Everything else is just about the same as before. Photos, testimonials and comments, and the "More About Yourself" section still take center stage there.  

What say you then? Is it fair to say that with Friendster's rebranding, it has turned itself into a Facebook copycat? With report from Alora Uy

The images displayed here are used with our writer Neps Firmalan's consent. He's got no choice. He's the only Techie staff with a still-active Friendster account. – Editor

 




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COMMENTS


  1. Joey Gagui: Ironic, Friendster holds patents for a lot of this Social networking party... I even think FB pays royalties to Friendster.
    December 6, 2009 at 9:36 pm

  2. azrael: UI looks more like twitter
    December 8, 2009 at 11:04 am

  3. jay: it is just the right thing to do.
    December 8, 2009 at 2:13 pm

  4. Bayag: Friendster sucks!! it copied the facebook... they knew that all of the people in friendster will go to facebook so that's why they copied it to get the users back -.-
    December 17, 2009 at 5:13 pm

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