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 http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif ) -

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).]

The e-mail address in your profile doesn't show up as a Friendster member...

As a fellow Brit, Fraser, I've added you to my friendster list; the concept seems really dorky and nerdy in the UK, but seems to going down a storm in the US. As such, I only add my American friends to it - I'd never ask my local friends to sign up! But the trouble is I only seem to have four friends!

hmmm, think I once went through some of your holiday snaps when I was killing time, so I'm defining that as 'friend!'. I've also got lots of cute American women linked to me, so you can browse through in case you ever get bored of your girlfriend http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

It is - I agree - but it surprising. I ended up re-connecting to a girl that I spent a summer in Oxford with when I was 17 & another girl that I was best friends with from ninth to eleventh grade with. Of course, there are negatives as well, some girl from college that I used to hang out with that I don't really like recently contacted me...so the question is - make the connection or just pretend it never happened? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

If you ignore it, they may get the hint and then start stalking you.

Friendster has just changed the way they reported the number of people in your personal network http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif. I'm now down to 123K people in my 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree criterian in my network.

It is definitely hoky, but it actually is interesting who you get to "meet" there.

It's dorky and nerdy to obsess over mileage but I do that too. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

I got a friendster request from nycandbrooklyn. Is that an FTer?

That or else you're very popular (must be the dog).

Usually I get an email saying someone has asked to be approved which I havent got yet. I'm on an ultra slow dialup connection and Friendster has been slow on DSL so I'll approve you and all your tasty American girls when I get back to Uni on Sunday evening

we broke up http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif