Friendster was considered the top online social network service until around April 2004 when it was overtaken by MySpace in terms of page views, according to Nielsen Online. Friendster has also received competition from all-in-one sites such as Windows Live Spaces, Bebo, Yahoo! 360, and Facebook. Of late, newer websites like hi5 are posing new competition for Friendster.

Google offered $30,000,000 to buy Friendster in 2003, but was turned down.

Friendster was funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Benchmark Capital in October 2003 with a reported valuation of $53 million.

In April 2004, John Abrams was removed as Chief Executive Officer and Tim Koogle took over as interim CEO. Koogle previously served as President and CEO at Yahoo!. Koogle was replaced by Scott Sassa in June 2004. Sassa left in May 2005 and was replaced by Taek Kwon. Taek Kwon was succeeded by Kent Lindstrom, after a recapitalization by Kleiner and Benchmark that valued Friendster at less than one-twentieth its valuation in 2003.

Friendster's decision to remain private instead of selling to Google in 2003 is considered one of the biggest blunders of Silicon Valley, the Associated Press claims.

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During the beta trial, Friendster is free. After the beta trial, basic membership will continue to be free, and some features will require a subscription. Friendster will never make money by selling information on our users.

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A lot! How many exactly depends on how you and your friends use Friendster. It could be hundreds or thousands. Every new friend that you or one of your friends add could bring over hundreds of new people to your personal network.

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Traditional online dating services are based on searching through large numbers of anonymous profiles. Friendster is based on networking through your friends. Your photo and profile will be shown only to people in your personal network. You will send and receive messages only with people connected to you through a series of mutual friends. You will be able to see how you are connected to people you are interested in, and either contact them directly, or ask a friend to make an introduction.

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Sure, you can use Friendster just to make friends, or to help your single friends meet people.

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Friendster can be used for all types of social networking, such as making friends, meeting other couples, or people with kids, etc.

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Just create a quick profile and add your friends to your personal and private networking community. Then you can see the friends of your friends, and browse and search through all of the people connected to you through networks of friends. You can view photos and profiles, see how you are connected to people, send messages, ask friends for introductions, or suggest matches between people.

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Friendster allows you to create a personal and private networking community where you can network through your friends, their friends, and so on.

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Friendster is an Internet social network service. The Friendster site was founded in Mountain View, California, United States by Jonathan Abrams in March 2002 and is privately owned. Friendster is based on the Circle of Friends and Web of Friends techniques for networking individuals in virtual communities and demonstrates the small world phenomenon. It currently has over 50 million users and is mostly used in Asia.

For me Friendster is the best because of friendster overlaying, I can Tweak my profile to any design i like.

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