Alvin’s Weblog

This post was supposed to be up on Saturday but due to power outage, I didn’t get to do so. I intended to post on another issue but unfortunately I do not have the needed pictures with me at the moment hence, I am going to talk about Friendster today. I still remember, I was one of those very reluctant people who joined Friendster because I felt it was too public and that people who didn’t know shit about your friends would just add them as friends, simply because they are pretty or handsome.

Probably I was too paranoid back then but over the years, Friendster has changed my perception. I now realise how I can use Friendster to good use. I realise it’s a good way to keep in touch with long lost friends or even enemies. Using Friendster for the past 3 years, I have somehow connected with quite a number of mates from the yesteryears, which I would have forgotten had it not been for Friendster.

Sometimes, I even surf my network of friends to see who I haven’t been in touch with which my other friends might still be in contact with. It’s interesting to see how some have grown physically and also mentally and spiritually. Then, there is also Multiply, Hi5, and all those other friendship network thing. I don’t exactly wanna start accounts on all these systems because, seriously, I find it stupid and redundant to have so many accounts just to keep in touch with almost the same friends. Of course Multiply fares better in certain aspects as compared to Friendster but heck, I can’t be bothered. All I care about is keeping in contact.

Now, added with features like blogs, pictures, fancy testimonials and stupendously fancy pages customized with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), I won’t deny the fact that Friendster has become increasingly interesting. Now, it is when these technologies are wrongly and sinfully used that annoys the fuck outta me. I have came across too many hellish pages which sent me straight down to the core of hell the instance I viewed them. So much so that I was forced to hit the browser’s X button the instance the pages loaded. The end result is that I had to apply the “Safe” option in Friendster to override CSS formatting so I’ll end up seeing the all clean and familiar interface of Friendster. CSS is good when you use it with good web design but it can be a real sore to the eyes if used to format the page with fancy colours that only god knows who can read. For god’s forsaken sake, don’t just put things because you fancy putting them on your webpage. Think about the design of the page and fit the right thing at the right place. Putting pictures(make it worse with all the blinkings and animations) and applying colours where it don’t belong is like painting a house partially pink, yellow and green, sticking pictures of you all over the wall and then having green lights in your study room. Get what I mean people? It’s just so wrong!!! PLEASE SPARE ME THE AGONY!!!

Since I am on it now, I am going to continue runting my frustration with some people who do not have that wee bit of brain in them. Remember Allen Smith from Friendster? Ya that fucking annoying Allen Smith, for the (I lost count) time, would you guys PLEASE stop forwarding that stupid fuckin’ message already? Ya ya, we all know Allen Smith and his team have been planning to cut us off Friendster but until now, all I can see is him talking, with the help of all those idiots out there, about terminating my account but till now, he still doesn’t have the balls to. For one last time, please just let me tell you guys, Friendster, as I see it, is a huge network which I believe is administered and handled by a whole bunch of professionals and had Friendster wanted to terminate your account, wouldn’t you think they would have just emailed you through their system instead of relying on some idiot to start forwarding messages so that they can determine the lucky ones whom they are gonna cut off their system? Some common sense would dictate that Friendster knows when and how long you haven’t been logging on, should they decide to terminate your account to save resources! So quit it!

Another thing, if you notice, is that some people go around finding for people they never even knew in the first place, just to add them because they are pretty or handsome. Now, maybe it’s just me, but I just couldn’t comprehend why on earth would any sensible soul want to add someone whom they don’t know just for the sake of making their list looks so horendously long with “friends” that they don’t know? I do know of friends adding girls from all over Friendster just for the fun of it and reason being, I am competing with my friends to see who gets more leng lui in the list. It defeats the purpose of Friendster and its DUMB!!!

So now that I have said it, I could appreciate what Friendster is there for and the benefits of it but guys, really, don’t abuse the features. I can already put a few links up to show you what I mean by HORENDOUS Friendster pages but I won’t. Just look at your pages and put fanciness aside, if you think your page is so great and is easy on the eyes, good, but if you think otherwise, it probably is time you change your web design. Enough said.