Now 70 Million Friendster Users Worldwide Can Stay in Touch Anytime,
Anywhere
SAN FRANCISCO and MANILA, Philippines, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --
Friendster, Inc. (http://www.friendster.com), the 8th largest website in
the world and the #1 social network in Asia, today announced that its 70
million users and the over 1 billion Internet-ready mobile phone users
globally can now stay in touch anywhere via Friendster's new mobile site,
accessible at m.friendster.com from any web-enabled mobile device. The new
mobile site is the first in a suite of forthcoming mobile offerings
referred to as Friendster Mobile.
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Using m.friendster.com from any Internet-ready mobile device,
Friendster users can retrieve updates on their friends' activities, check
messages, review friend requests, post shoutouts, browse photos, browse
user profiles and Fan Profiles, search for users by name or email, view
birthdays, read horoscopes, post bulletins and much more. This enables more
effective communications with friends while away from a computer.
m.friendster.com is free for all users. Users are still subject to
their particular carrier data plan or wireless Internet service provider
plan.
In the coming weeks, the site will be available in multiple languages.
Indonesian will be the first additional language, given Friendster's large
and highly mobile user base in Indonesia where Friendster has over 8
million registered users and 4 million monthly unique visitors to
Friendster.com, as of March 2008. Shortly, users will be able to also
register directly on m.friendster.com, create an account and instantly
begin participating in the Friendster global community.
In Asia, where Friendster is the #1 social network, there are currently
over 1.2 billion mobile phone users and over 315 million PC-based Internet
users. The introduction of Friendster Mobile in Asia will allow hundreds of
millions of people who have Internet-ready mobile devices, but may not have
their own PC or access to a PC on a regular basis, to use Friendster.
"As the 8th largest website in the world, Friendster is pleased to
offer our 70 million users around the globe the opportunity to access
Friendster from their mobile phones," said David Jones, vice president of
global marketing for Friendster. "Our users have asked for a mobile site
that makes staying in touch with friends while on the go even easier. We've
taken our most popular core social networking features and made them easy
to use via mobile devices at m.friendster.com," he said.
Users should bookmark m.friendster.com on their mobile browser of
choice to make it even easier to access their Friendster networks while on
the go and tell their friends about how easy it is to stay in touch via
Friendster Mobile.
Friendster Leads in Asia
Friendster is the #1 social network in Asia, with over 50 million
registered users and 34 million monthly unique visitors from Asia.* In
Asia, Friendster is more than twice the size of any other social network.
While Friendster has over 34 million monthly unique visitors in Asia,
Facebook has 16 million, MySpace.com and MySpace.cn have only 15 million
combined, Mixi (Japan) has 14 million, CyWorld (Korea) has 13 million, Hi5
has 12 million, Orkut has 10 million, Xiaonei (China) has 7 million, 51.com
(China) has 7 million, and Bebo has 4 million.*
Friendster - A Top 10 Website Globally
Friendster is the 8th largest Web site and the 3rd largest social
network in the world in terms of traffic, and #1 in user engagement (time
spent on site) among top social networks. Friendster now has 68 million
registered users and 39 million monthly unique visitors. Friendster
continued its healthy growth by adding another 2 million monthly unique
visitors in March 2008 and 9 million monthly unique visitors in the last 3
months.*
About Friendster
With more than 70 million members worldwide, Friendster is a leading
global online social network. Friendster is focused on helping people stay
in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important
to them. Online adults, 18 and up, choose Friendster to connect with
friends, family, school, social groups, activities and interests.
Friendster prides itself in delivering an easy-to-use, friendly and
interactive environment where users can easily connect with anyone around
the world. Friendster has a growing portfolio of patents granted to the
company on social networking, with more expected over the next several
months. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Friendster is backed by
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and
individual investors. For more information, visit:
http://www.friendster.com.
*comScore Media Metrix, March 2008
SOURCE Friendster, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Lerin O'Neill of The Hoffman Agency,
+1-408-975-3037, press@friendster.com, for Friendster
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