Tag: FRIENDSTER

Online companies have slowly made account deletion exasperatingly difficult (if not impossible) to accomplish, and success may only follow hours of trial-and-error-induced hysterics. While GetHuman has been guiding frustrated consumers through the maze of support lines for sometime, it was only recently that we spotted a similar service that walked users around the hair-pulling experience of ...

Sometimes 'The Onion' hits the satirical nail so square on the head it transcends simple humor (like this post 9/11 classic) and becomes a reflection of the current state of the world. It's recent video "news" clip, 'Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of 'Friendster' Civilization,' works not just because Friendster is an easy punchline -- but because it speaks volumes about how future generations ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Call it BlackBerry Friday. Beginning today, all AT&T BlackBerrys with a two-year contract will be 50-percent off after a mail-in-rebate. [From: Techland] According to a MySpace page where celebrities reveal what's on their iPods, the Pope likes to get down with some Tupac, specifically the track "Changes." Can we now expect a ...

Remember Friendster? The first big social networking site that we all got excited about? The one with the gray smiley face for a logo? Nothing? Friendster may have been first, but its reign at the top was short lived. The pioneering service was launched in March 2003 by computer programmer Jonathan Abrams, and by June of 2006 it had lost its spot as the most popular social networking site in the ...

Notiong of the online realm ushering in a new age free of any racial and societal divisions may be somewhat misplaced if the results of a new study out are to be believed. The study, which polled 1,000 college freshmen entering Northwestern University, showed that clearly divided lines exist among the various social networks preferred by various races. For example, white students tended to prefer ...