Informative Speech: “Friendster as a Social Network”
We are to inform the audience about a specific topic.
I.What is Friendster?
-Friendster is a global online network focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discovering new people.
-The concept of Friendster is based on a circle of friends for people who are involved in the virtual community. According to Ange’s statistics, 90% of young people are participating in this social networking site daily and is common in Asia. In fact google offered to buy this network in 2003 with $30m, but Friendster declined.
-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 NetRatings.
II.About Its History
-Originated in Mountain View, California, USA by Jonathan Abram in March 2002, Friendster was then funded by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Benchmark Capital on October 2003 with $53 million evaluated value.
III.How To Set Up an Account
-Simple just fill in blanks… and by clicking the register button, you agree to Friendster Terms of Services.
IV.Things You Should Now About Friendster
*Population
- Population in Friendster is increasing by 100, 000 registered users everyday. Presently a rounded off value of 85 million registered users, and the site itself received over 61 million unique visitors on August 2008 worldwide.
*Popularity
- Friendster is top 3 social network in the world in terms of traffic. It is also at the top 100 visited site in 15 countries on four continents. The Republic of the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, United States Of America and Singapore are the top 5 countries accessing Friendster where the RP the top 1 and Singapore the top 5. It was reported that the Philippines has the most number of Friendster members worldwide with 90% of its internet users have Friendster account. Filipinos prefer Friendster more than any other social or community site. As such, Friendster has become part of Filipino cyberculture and contemporary popular culture.
*Language
- Friendster could be accessed using 9 languages, including: Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Malay, Spanish, and English.
* Usage
- The main usage of Friendster is to keep friends stay connected with each other even they are oceans apart. Friendster is a great tool for communication. You can update your friends by uploading your latest pictures, let them know what’s on your mind through bulletins and shoutout; also you can send messages too.
V.Demographics
-Half of the population of Friendster is females, and the other half are male.
- Young adult ages from 18-24 composed more than half of the population of Friendster and 28% of the total population composed of ages 25-34, 5% of the population ages 13-17, and the 6% are ages 35-44.
To sum up, though there are new social networking sites today, still there are people who used Friendster for their convenience. And up to now, Friendster still strives to satisfy its users by adding new features in the site.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
·http://www.friendster.com/info/index.php
·http://www.twopointdoh.com/social_network_service/Friendster.html
·http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendster
·http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/15/the-friendster-tell-all-story/
