Friendster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From friend + -ster.
Base: friend
Affixes: -ster
Inflected forms:
form: Friendsters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A friend on the social networking site Friendster.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
historical
examples: Count my Friendsters: 48 with 4 pending.
danah boyd, speaking about the social networking site Friendster, shows that users are aware that there is a difference between friends and Friends: “Overheard conversations might include statements such as ‘She’s not my friend, but she’s my Friendster’ and ‘Did you see that Alex is Drew’s Friendster? (boyd 2004).
DON’T MESS WITH ME OR MY 346 FRIENDSTERS / Is Friendster more addictive than crack? Shit, yeah (“Can We Still Be Friendsters?” November)! […] Todd Dalton […] “I’d love to give Dave Matthews a makeover to look like a goth singer circa 1983. Only then would I accept him as my Friendster.” Audrey Levy
Uma Thurman hugs me good-bye, and we agree to become Friendsters.
Do you want to be my Friendster?
But once I’d clicked the acceptance button—and found out it was not Hippie but our other, Virginia connection that inspired Posse Pal’s overture—I found myself wondering whether I might find Poster Boy among his Friendsters. […] But when I responded by asking about those mission trips I’d heard about—and mentioning my own excursion to India—Poster Boy fell silent, though he added me to his Friendsters.
It was Abrams’ original intention to have a website that hosted pages for close friends and family to be able to connect, not as a virtual popularity contest to see who could get the most “Friendsters” (Milian, 2009).
gloss: A user of the social networking site Friendster.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
historical
examples: Most Friendsters aren’t trying to meet anyone they don’t already know; […] Friendsters seem totally comfortable with strangers assuming they cheat on their wives and sketch portraits of unicorns in their free time, but they don’t want anyone to think they watch According to Jim unironically. […] For those unfamiliar with the site, the big draw within the Friendster universe is the testimonial, in which other Friendsters post enthusiastic endorsements of your relative awesomeness.
You also get your own email inbox on the site, as shown in Figure 17-1, which you can use to send notes to other Friendsters. (This is a safer way to meet new people than passing out your email address to online strangers.)
Friendster also lets users create individual blogs, share photos and video, post to discussion boards, and chat with other Friendsters.
Most “Friendsters” – as the site’s members were called – had joined the site, in keeping with its name, to validate themselves socially by collecting a maximum number of “friends”.
The deal put a Friendster app on the Yahoo! website, promotional placements for Yahoo! products on Friendster, enchaned search results for Friendster user profiles and Friendster Fan Profiles within Yahoo! Search, and the ability of Friendsters to link their accounts on the social network with their Yahoo! accounts.
gloss: An account on the social networking site Friendster.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
historical
examples: Consider the hundreds of students from Singapore and Indonesia who create Friendsters for their teachers so that they can write testimonials about them.
You are the profile picture in my Facebook; you are my only friend in my Friendster.
I really, really want to go back in time and recycle my Friendster.
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