A new and improved Friendster.com is coming very soon. Friendster a popular networking site in the Philippines is facing a bigger challenge because many Filipino’s are switching to Facebook.
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New Friendster:
Friendster Games
Putting your favourite features at your fingertips, we’ve placed Games under the ‘Fun’ menu on the navbar. You can then select from a list of more than 200 games based on the Most Popular, Latest Released and A-Z. With new games added everyday there will always be something fun for everyone.
The Friendster Wallet – Along with the Friendster Gift Shop, we’ve launched the new Friendster Wallet enabling you to store money on Friendster in a currency called “Friendster Coins.” It can be spent throughout Friendster’s site for gifts, and new, upcoming goods and services. You’ve told us you don’t have a credit card, so the Friendster Wallet supports prepaid “top-up” cards, which can be purchased at readily-accessible convenience stores such as 7-Eleven. You can buy physical pre-paid card at thousands of offline locations throughout Asia with cash, and then enter the unique code from the card into the Friendster Wallet to receive the money into your account. Then users can make purchases on Friendster.com for gifts, games, goods and services.
The Friendster Wallet comes with 1,500 “Friendster Chips”, Friendster’s play money that will let you try before you buy.
Friendster Coin Prepaid Card available at 7-Elevens
The Friendster Gift Shop – Now you can send gifts to friends quickly and conveniently. The new Friendster Gift Shop helps you show your friends that you care – and show off the special gifts you receive in return.
There are a variety of gifts in the Shop already and more will be added over time. All are accompanied by a note, allowing you to add a personal message. And the best part, when gifts are sent, they arrive wrapped for the recipient, which makes unwrapping the gift more fun and exciting just like the real thing.
The New Friendster Gift Shop:
Your New Profile Page –we’ve given your Profile Page a makeover.
Redesigned ‘About Me’ Section with Friends Included (at the top):
You’ll see a newly designed ‘About Me’ section at the top, with a larger version of your primary picture. Your profile is customizable and you can choose from a variety of skins from our skins directory to decorate your page, add your own background images or a custom CSS to make your profile page even more personalized.
The New Shoutout Stream – Your friends will always be in the know with the new Shoutout Stream, where all your Shoutouts are saved and listed.
You can post comments in your Network Activity Stream, and your friends’ Stream and reply to comments!
Faster Photos –We know viewing photos and sharing them with friends is one of your favorite things to do on Friendster, so we’ve improved the entire photo experience. You can now upload 1,000 photos a day and we’ve made photo comments more prominent, so sharing thoughts with friends around photos is easier.
Larger Photo Albums on your Photo Albums Page:
Easier Sharing – Forwarding content to friends and sharing photos with your network is easier. We’ve given you quick ways to share content with friends all across the site, and right on your homepage, in your Network Activity Stream and in your photo albums.
Your New Homepage – Once you log into the new Friendster, the first thing you’ll see is the redesigned homepage.
The Color Theme Selector (at the top):
You can give your homepage and your top navigation bar a color theme by choosing a color at the top.
Your notifications are neatly arranged on the left hand side…
…and your friends’ upcoming birthdays and the latest bulletins from your network are there on the right, helping you find the content you need quickly and easily.
