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Rosabelle L. Oribello, a sophomore at Stanford, said that the site reminded her of Friendster, an online networking service. “It looks pretty cool,” she said...
Thefacebook.com, which resembles the website Friendster, enables users to upload photographs, personal information and their course lists. Members can create networks by looking up other users and inviting them to be friends...
...joined the website to maintain connections to the school and to old friends,” Paisley wrote in an e-mail. “It also seemed like a fun alternative to Friendster, mostly because of the private-club feel of the Harvard-only site...
...After checking out the site, I was impressed by the all-inclusive nature of a Friendster-style Harvard site that brings undergrads, grads, alums, faculty and staff together,” she wrote...
...difference between Friendster and thefacebook.com, though, was that Friendster was essentially a dating network—albeit a more socially acceptable one than most. There was that little white lie that was implicit in its warm ’n’ fuzzy title, that this was about friends meeting friends, and no one was in the slightest bit desperate and dateless—they were all just looking for “activity partners,” as Friendster’s code engineers let us say in place of any overt indicator of romantic interest. This clever masquerade...