Excuse me while I grab some paper towels to mop up all the iced coffee that just forcibly flew from my nose and mouth and all over my keyboard and Mac screen. In case you haven't heard (and I'm sure most of us haven't)... FRIENDSTER IS COMING BACK?Wow. Do you remember Friendster? I hardly do. It's like thinking past LiveJournal and trying to remember Xanga and Diaryland. It's like remembering your Angelfire or Geocities web site (mine was covered in photos of Gwen Stefani while I pretended to be straight, btw).
Anyway, here's Friendster with a new video set on grabbing all of you FaceSpacers and MyFaces and bringing you back to their digital fold. By how? By being original!
Except it ISN'T original. Are you looking at the same screen I am? It looks like a Facebook layout, with a Farmville ripoff, and a LOT of asians sitting around a Mac on a couch.
I don't see personalization I see me-too of the highest caliber. And I don't think that "hey! no one's here!" is really a good selling point.
Maybe I'm not seeing it... is Friendster poised for a comeback? Or should they just sell their URL to a porn company?
Oh... and epic fail to the tagline "Connecting Smiles"... WHAT!? ::headdesk::
xo
JR
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