Friendster Logo — Friendster is a website of social network. The Web site Friendster was founded in Mountain View (Santa Clara County in California to the United States) by Jonathan Abrams in March 2002. Friendster is based on the technical circles and networks of friends for contacting people in virtual communities and demonstrate the small world phenomenon. There are currently over 50 million users and is mostly used in Asia.

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Friendster was considered the number one social networking sites online until about April 2004 when he was overtaken by MySpace in terms of number of pages viewed, according to Nielsen Online. Friendster was also competition from sites “all in one” as Windows Live Spaces, Bebo, Yahoo! 360, and Facebook. Recently, new sites like hi5 represent new competition for Friendster. More