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People in Friendster would search for other people through an installed search engine. This was vital for people who wanted to ‘connect’ with long-lost friends and people with common interests. They may go through this approach, or they can browse through the friends of other friends to locate people to add.

Speaking of adding people to a certain user’s list, people who wish to ‘connect’ with other people in Friendster would do so by adding them as friends directly. However, this may not be applicable at all times, depending on the security settings of a certain contact, and on the degree of the relation between both people. For second-degree or third-degree friends, the site often asks a person about the posted last name or email address of the contact he or she wishes to add. The said data is not necessarily posted publicly, and the person would really have to know the proposed contact to add him or her.

This process of contacting and adding friends have proven to be effective in all aspects over the years. Friendster has been busy in updating the integrity of its servers to accommodate other features for people and their friends to enjoy. Minor additions to communicating with other people have been added. People can send other people a ‘smile’, though this is ultimately just a message with a predetermined subject.

The main changes between now and then, however, can be seen in the additional features that members can enjoy. People now have the ability to post videos straight from video streaming sites like YouTube and the like. Audio streams can also be uploaded to play automatically when a person’s profile is viewed. Html and Css code editing was also enabled for tech savvy members to tweak their profiles even more.

Friendster has been the basis for many other online social networks which have developed over the past few years. This site has ushered the popularity of social networking to the general public.