Online Social Network - Friendster

Information Technology

Online Social Network - Friendster

Presented by:

Cheah Yee Shin

Yam Yeah Yin

Pang See Yin

Tan Cheng Ying










Objectives

Define Social Network Sites

Explain the reason of why the

People using social network sites

Knowing what is Friendster

Recognize the steps of how to

become a Friendster member

Recognize variety of ways to

manage your own

Friendster Profile

Recognize the steps of how to

Create a Friendster Group

Knowing what is an application

and how secure is it

Recognize the steps of how to

add an application to a

Friendster profile

Lists out some of the top

application that use in the

Friendster

Knowing what is a “social group”

in the Friendster

Lists out variety of ways that you

can make and interact with

friends by using Friendster

Knowing how Friendster help you

to connect with others

Discuss about the Friendster

safety issues

Social Networking Sites

What Are Social Networking Sites?




as web-based services that allow individuals to




(1)Create a public or semi-public profile within a limited system,




(2) Articulate a record of other users with whom they share a connection, and




(3) View and go across their list of connections and those made by others within the system.

There are variety of ways for users to communicate with others in the space which provided by specific sites.










Social Networking Sites

Why use the social networking sites?




Social network sites are often designed to be widely available; many may appeal to homogeneous populations primarily.




There are huge numbers of personal reasons that a person uses the social networking sites.




Some may want an easy way to keep in touch with family and friends, some may use it for business or job finding, others may use it for dating or just to find like-minded individuals online.




About Friendster

Introduction to Friendster




Friendster was one of the first Web sites to bring it into mass culture when Social networking has become one of the biggest things to hit the Internet since Google.




Friendster.com started in 2002 by U.S. businessman Jonathan Abrams.




While most dating sites focused on introducing people to strangers with similar interests, Friendster was intended to help friends-of-friends meet.

About Friendster

Introduction to Friendster




Friendster is set up like a community geared at the following activities:

(1) Linking with friends and family

(2) Encounter new people throughout the connections you already have




(3) Discover people with similar interests, backgrounds or geographical locations

(4) Joining groups by activity, school or interest

(5) Interconnect passing through message posts, games, blogs and application sharing

(6) Representing yourself, your interests or your business to the Internet community







About Friendster

Introduction to Friendster




Members are typically teenagers or young adults in their 20s, depending on the country they live in.




It now concentrates on an older, financially independent, post-college crowd as it initially under enemy control in the 20-something market.




Friendster honor itself in bringing a clean, user-friendly and interactive environment where users can simply connect with anyone around the world.




Friendster also believe as the first global online social network




Friendster now can fully support nine languages which include English, Malay, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.

How Friendster Works

How to become a Friendster?




1. First you need to create an account.




2. You must read the Agreement and point out your acceptance of its terms by following the orders on the "Sign Up" page and read-through the box labeled "I agree to Friendster's terms of service”




3. Clicking the sign up button on the main page will bring you to a form which asks for your personal in formation.

4. You'll also go through a security question for fear that you forget your user name and password.




5. Next you'll be asked to upload a photo.







6. If you're shy or did not to put a photo which represents you, you may just click "continue."




7. Keep to the directions to check your e-mail for a proof notice, and that's it.




8. You're a Friendster now!







How Friendster Works

How to become a Friendster?











































Photo courtesy Friendster

This sign-up page is the gateway to your Friendster social networking.

How Friendster Works

Friendster Profiles

Now you can move on to create your profile, which will look something like this.





































Photo courtesy Friendster Sample Friendster profile

How Friendster Works

Friendster Profiles




the profile is your home.




it’s regard as your face.




Here you can manage your account, create relations and modify the information friends can see about you.




You can click the Home tab in the blue navigation bar at the top of the page to bring you back to your profile, if you get misplaced where lost.

Here are some highlights:




Put in photos and video.




Post messages




(3)Write a blog.

(4) Write reviews of music, movies, books and TV.




(5)Create an avatar.

How Friendster Works

Friendster Applications




What is an application?




Apps (Applications) are latest features that you can insert to your Friendster account.




Applications are fun, interactive tools designed for sharing and real-time play.




How secure are applications?




Apps are absolutely secure and will not have an effect on the protection or security of your Friendster experience.

























Photo courtesy

Friendster Friendster application page

How Friendster Works

Friendster Applications




How to add the applications?




1. First, you need to click the explore button, which allocate at the blue navigation bar at the top of the page of your profile and then click the applications button




2. Then you will be seeing a page that just likes left side of sample picture.




3. After that choose the applications that you want and then click the add to profile button which below each of the applications.




4. And that’s it; you have added applications to your profiles!




































































































Photo courtesy Friendster

these are just a few of the thousands of applications you can use when you join Friendster.­

How Friendster Works

Friendster Applications




In Friendster, there are exactly thousands of applications to select from.




Most of the applications are free, however some require you to earn "spending" points










Top applications




Some of the top applications on Friendster include the following:




(1) Imeem

(2) Chat

(3) My Mini Life




Video and photo applications are also big attention-getters.

Many applications are produced by outside developers or know-how Friendster users who structure something fun and then share it with friends, although some of these applications were designed by Friendster.




How Friendster Works

How to Create a “Social Group”?




1. First, you click the my connections tab in the blue navigation bar at the top of the page in your home page.

2. And, then, click the Groups button.




3. After that, a page that will show the groups that you have been joined all along will be come out in front to you : which like just like the besides picture samples.








































Photo courtesy Friendster

your own “My Group” page sample

How Friendster Works








































Photo courtesy Friendster

Form for creating a group (page sample)







How to Create a “Social Group”?




4. Next, you just click the create group button at the below of the title “My Group” on that page.




5. Afterwards, you will be bringing to a form that asks for your group information that you want to create: which just like at the left side sample picture.




6. After you have finished fill up the form, you can just click the save button which at the bottom of the form and that’s it.




7. You have created a group!

How Friendster Works

The Group (Early Edition)




After you have been create a group, the page of the group will be look like the right side of the sample picture

For the presentation, Early Edition (the group) had been created to show how a “social group” can be created.




The group had been created on 12th July 2008




Until on 26th July 2008, the Group has consists of 44 members




Owner of the group is Amy (Yam Yeah Yin)











































An example of Friendster Group page (Early Edition)

How Friendster Works

The Group (Early Edition)




Description




It is a television series which the plot is set in the city of Chicago, Illinois;




It followed the adventures of a man who try to prevent dreadful events day by day, which he discover regarding by getting the next day's Chicago Sun-Times newspaper the day before it is officially published.










The member of the group can give some discussions or announcements that related to the group




Joining the group give enjoyment and excitement because can discover new friend that have the same interest about the television series.

How Friendster Works








































Online social networks like Friendster expand your social circle by connecting you to other people through friends and friends of friends.

Friendster Connections:

Six Degrees of Separation




Friendster lets you attach with people you recognize and network out from there, structure your web of contacts.




Those connections are called friends.




For example: If John is friends with Ken, and Ken is friends with Jamie, then John is connected to both Ken and Jamie.




Ken is the link that binds them.




How Friendster Works

Friendster Connections:




Here are some of the ways you can make and interact with friends:




1. Invite someone to be your friend.




2. Upload your mail address book.




3. Join groups that share your interests.




4. Involve yourself in forums to talk about anything from philosophy to cult movies.




5. Pile on the applications.




6. Display Featured Friends on your profile.




7. Browse the Explore page.

How Friendster Works

Friendster Safety Issues




As social networking has overfilled, so have concerns about privacy and online security.




Friendster claims it "does not send spam or sell email addresses“.




There are certain personal data is required for registration.




Friendster may share non-identifiable data such as user patterns to help advertisers aim their viewers more professionally.

With the exemption of a few basics viewable to all, who sees your profile is mainly up to you.




Blocking individual users from get into your profile is one way to stay away from unwanted solicitation.




Regulate privacy settings to categorize out certain countries, limit access to "friends-only" or second-degree access




The public setting means it's viewable to all.

How Friendster Works

Friendster Safety Issues




Who's watching me?




Users of Friendster can realize who's been checking out their profiles by clicking the button of "Who's Viewed Me" feature which can be founded at the picture that you uploaded.




However you can simply change your setting to "anonymous," in that way avoids anyone from knowing you viewed them.







Anxiety




Anxiety about youth safety may be less of an issue now that Friendster targets age 18 or above audience, and you must be at least age 16 to join.




But it should be noted that there's really no reliable way to tell fact from untruth in the world of virtual personalities.




The birth date and year that you enter when you sign up, who can be falsify with a little basic math is the only confirmation Friendster requires.

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