Friendster and other Social Network Users by Age

If you will noticed that most of the Friendster and other social networking sites mebers are all teens. Yes, according to Rapleaf Study for social network said that, most social network is still dominated by 14-24 year olds.

Rapleaf undertook a study on 49.3 million people in our database (old 14-74)the study was coducted through the social networks such as Friendster, Myspace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Flickr. According to the study, Women and the 14-24 year olds are more likely to use Friendster, Myspace and Facebook than other social networks (the 14-24 year old age bracket represents 65.5% and 66.25% of total users respectively.

Accodring to the study of Rapleaf it is said that women spend more time on the social networks drawing up and nurturing relationships, while the men are less likely to spend as much hour nurturing relationship as they are transacting.

Social Network	Age Groups							Number of Total Members
	14-17	18-24	25-34	35-44	45-54	55-64	65+
Bebo	30.88%	37.75%	21.16%	6.22%	2.54%	1.05%	0.41%	5,806,867
BlackPlanet	14.97%	47.28%	25.74%	8.50%	2.55%	0.66%	0.30%	1,201,687
Classmates	6.82%	29.10%	38.32%	14.98%	7.24%	2.78%	0.76%	3,051,761
Facebook	19.77%	46.38%	24.07%	6.34%	2.35%	0.76%	0.32%	5,920,236
Flickr	6.63%	27.21%	38.06%	17.20%	7.50%	2.70%	0.71%	2,068,097
Flixster	21.57%	38.41%	24.99%	9.29%	3.98%	1.36%	0.40%	17,647,399
Friendster	10.89%	41.13%	34.49%	9.40%	2.80%	0.89%	0.39%	5,260,380
Hi5	16.90%	44.44%	26.27%	7.96%	3.15%	0.99%	0.29%	14,679,615
LinkedIn	1.06%	10.72%	50.98%	24.66%	8.91%	3.07%	0.61%	841,209
Multiply	12.58%	45.39%	28.80%	8.45%	3.31%	1.08%	0.39%	1,354,647
Myspace	26.78%	38.69%	22.11%	7.73%	3.20%	1.05%	0.43%	31,845,954
MyYearbook	38.30%	36.39%	15.39%	6.21%	2.57%	0.78%	0.36%	2,449,251
Perfspot	13.07%	41.06%	30.37%	10.19%	3.81%	1.17%	0.33%	1,159,539
Ringo	17.66%	42.33%	26.53%	8.67%	3.43%	1.06%	0.32%	9,770,151
Tickle	17.33%	40.25%	26.65%	9.58%	4.38%	1.40%	0.40%	6,481,601

Table dated on June 18, 2008

Friendster Users Around the World

Social networking in the internet is a big industry. You will see that the big percentage of internet users uses a social network. One of these social network is the Friendster.com. It is said that Friendster is one of pioneer in the social networking and is still running, kicking and still growing. You may ask, which country does log in more on friendster? Ok, i will give you the numbers. According to Alexa, an independent online usage research firm in the US said that Philippines is on the top spot with 38.8% of its users. Followed by Malaysia with 18.6%,the Indonesians got 14.6%, Singapore has a 14.3%, United States with 3.2%, UAE with 1.2 percent, Canada with 0.8%, United Kingdom with 0.6%, Australia with 0.5%, in Hong Kong with 0.5%, the Japanese at 0.3% and India with 0.2% respectively. With the numbers show, majority of its users is in Asia and they are still growing.

Friendster Supports Applications for other Social Network Sites

Yes this is a bad news, Friendster has been slowly fading. Friendster slowly fades in the United States but not in other part of the world. Mainly in the Asian region. Friendster now moves as it begun letting programmers create photo-sharing applications and other programs that work on Friendster as well as rival sites.

Friendster Inc. have already said that it will support this idea. They will support this initiative, a Google Inc.-led plan called OpenSocial. But few week ago, Friendster released the software tools that let outside programmers easily adapt chats, games and other functions initially made for other online hangouts.

Friendster's use in the United States has fallen with the rise of newer online hangouts. Still, Friendster has been hot in Asia, particularly in the Philippines and other markets that the leading U.S. social networks are trying to tap as domestic online advertising growth slows down.

Facebook has yet to publicly back OpenSocial, though Facebook has had tremendous success encouraging developers to write tools specifically for it.

Other participants in OpenSocial include hi5, LinkedIn, Ning, Google's Orkut and Bebo, which Time Warner Inc.'s AOL recently bought for $850 million.

Introduction of Text Alerts in Asia and Philippines - Friendster

I have been a friendster user for almost 4 years now. And i have to say that it is a good and very useful site. I can communicate with my long lost friends. So i wanted to get up to date with the happenings from my friends. Now, friendster have added a new and cool feature for their users, its the Text Alerts that will enable user to receive alerts through sms and their mobile phones. In that way, they can login immediately to their accounts and view the alert and read some info. Isn't this feature so wonderful? I think it is. I will use this feature.