It's a social networking site, kinda based on the "6 degrees of separation" concept. Each person on it has a profile page, where you can add pictures and basic personal info (hometown,favorite music/books/movies, interests,etc.). You can also post bulletin board messages visible to your friends, or friendster-mail people in your network.

However, you can only see the profiles of people who are connected to you by several degrees (current- friends, friends-of-friends and friends-of-friends-of-friends).

So to use bhatnasx as an example (hope he doesn't mind ) -

Above, I mention that I have 15 connections to him- we don't have any direct connections, but there are 15 instances where friends I have on Friendster have linked to friends of his.

So, I have 15 links to him shown as:
landspeed-landspeed's friend- bhatnasx's friends-bhatnasx

So, while I can see his profile, I can't see the profiles of his friends that I don't have connections to otherwise, as they are outside of my network.

Mayby that explanation hurt more than it helped....

[This message has been edited by landspeed (edited Mar 10, 2004).]