Friendster’s “Jolog-ness”
For sure, most of us now would say that Facebook is way better than Friendster, but I think otherwise. Friendster may have suffered from an invasion of “jolog” members, but Facebook can be messy too at times, with all the “What is your Kanto Name?” quiz requests and Mafia Wars and Farmville invitations. Add up superpoke and superwall and I see myself as irritated as I am with all the spam bulletin posts, animé backgrounds and blinding colored designs and fonts that plague Friendster profiles.
But yes, Facebook has some good traits. I particularly love its minimalistic design which doesn’t allow you to change your profile’s or pages’ design and its ability to tag photos. The thing is you just lack privacy. I hate it when everybody can comment on your photos just because they can and there’s no way to control it!
Friendster, on the otherhand, can boast of its testimonials functionality. In the good old days of Friendster, you would find heartwarming and touching testimonials. Although good testimonials are hard to find nowadays, having them is still better than those wall posts I’ll ever receive in Facebook.
The heartwarming and touching testimonials from your close friends or kind words of appreciation from new friends you invited or from people whom I rarely (if ever since I’m abroad) get to see again. I would never have gotten in touch with them if not for Friendster and its “jolog-ness”.
I just miss the good old days of Friendster. It’s just no good now because almost everyone I now has already migrated to Facebook (and is now busy harvesting the crops they have planted in Farmville), but whatever everybody say, Friendster would always have a special place in my heart (ang jologs…).
By the way, if you have read this far, penge naman ng testi!
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