Friendster

I felt cheated.

Since the start of the Friendster “fever”, I never jumped on the bandwagon. I have two reasons. First, it is too gay for me. I said so because most people I know, who are in friendster, are either girls, or are still below their puberty age. Second, I am not the sociable type. I’ve seen ugly exchanges of testimonials from ex-friends and I’m not one who would want to be at the receiving end of it. Nor am I one who would do well in writing testimonials. Don’t get me wrong, I see a lot of good things from my friends; I am just too lazy to write a testimonial of it for them.

It’s been years since Friendster started and I have always maintained my position. I blog, I do online messaging and I can be seen in several forums, but I don’t do friendster. Not until now.

Friendster introduced another feature, the friendster blogs, and my friends are into it. You see, I enjoy participating in blog discussions and when I clicked on “Post a Comment” link, it required a friendster account! What choice do I have? It’s a “make a friendster account or too bad you can’t post any comments here” kind of thing.

So I relented.