The almost-dead social networking website, Friendster has recently announced to be deleting the almost a decade long collection of their user photos, blog posts, including other data in a little while. This step is owed to a complete makeover for the social networking website, a makeover which will make it a complete reciprocal of Facebook, rather than being a rival, said the spokesman of the company Thursday.
Image via CrunchBase The refurbishment of the service of Friendster is intended to once again bring it in the limelight which the website received in its earlier days before it was outnumbered and crushed by the giant Facebook. Facebook has almost more than 600 million active users to date, whereas Friendster at its peak time only mounted up a total 115 million registered members, it was the time of 2002. However, it is interesting to notice that only 40 million ouy of those have currently applicable emails and even less than that can be classified as active users.
Friendster recently published an e-mail announcement to all its members in this past weekend and took the opportunity to notify them that they should quickly save any worthy pictures they might like to keep, along with their profile information, messages, blog posts or any other material they would like to keep. Nor Badron, the company spokesman, residing in Singapore announced the date of removal of all content to be the 31st of May, 2011. He spoke to the Associated Press saying that "This is an evolution of the site to push the boundaries of our business.” He also later added that "It's not about direct competition with Facebook. Whoever wants to compete with Facebook would be crazy."
This is the most significant step Friendster has taken since its Malaysian takeover by the mogul Vincent Tan's online payment systems company MOL Global. The deal of acquiring the website was signed back in 2009. Whereas, now Friendster announces that on June, 2011, it will finally release its mew services. Nor also promised that these services will completely be the opposite to the services provided by Facebook, as it has set its eyes on the aim for developing a platform for social interaction in areas like gaming, music, entertainment and online shopping.
Nor went on explaining that "We realize there's no need to have photo albums or the duplication of status updates on both Facebook and Friendster, so this is something totally different, a whole new ball game.” He continued making his point and added that "It's about something you don't do on Facebook that you can do on Friendster."
It has not yet been disclosed that how much investment has been brought in for Friendster makeover, and how much do they hope to get out of it.
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