Comments on: Friendster’s plethora of high school students

By: Online

Online — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:34:54 +0000

The point is that there is a problem… and the problem seems to me very serious…
and I suppose that the problem is not easy to solve, since there are lots of other examples when the Internet allows people to pose themselves as those who they really are not…
and not only teens!

By: Nata

Nata — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:04:37 +0000

Nata piska

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:08:39 +0000

“Shouting at ppl, Confiscating balls especially soccer balls, Catch students who are late for school.”
So how can we expect students to be nice if teachers are a really bad example?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 26 May 2004 00:36:04 +0000

At this point, if teens and other “fakesters” want to deal with the slowness of friendster then let them. Of course, it’s obvious that the fakesters would be “69″, and Friendster would simply be retarded for not dealing with the issue. Besides, most people I know have switched to MySpace, whose community consists of more active members anyways.

By: Idiotprogrammer

Idiotprogrammer — Wed, 19 May 2004 14:56:08 +0000

Friendster Teens and Elderly

According to Danah Boyd, underage teens are signing up on Friendster as people in their 60′s. Let’s be clear about this. What does underage mean? Under 18? Under 21? The assumption is that someone is underage is they can’t be dated? However,…

By: Lawrence Krubner

Lawrence Krubner — Sat, 15 May 2004 23:15:05 +0000

“(Of course, today’s apathy is easy to explain… the Fakesters and teens aren’t nearly as visible to the friends and FoF of those in the Valley as they were 9 months ago.)”

Could someone tell me why this is? I’m too far outside this scene simply to get it. All my friends are on MySpace, I don’t know anybody who uses Friendster.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 11 May 2004 17:23:59 +0000

Or they could move the hosting server to Baghdad…

By: paul

paul — Mon, 10 May 2004 14:56:00 +0000

if the members are under 13, friendster would be liable under COPPA (well, one of those damned acronyms .

By: Scott M

Scott M — Mon, 10 May 2004 11:18:38 +0000

I understand the potential apathy, but it makes me think they aren’t bothering to check out their own demographics from time to time. Even if someone checking wasn’t clued into age=69, they would still see an odd spike of “seniors” at the far end.

I bet they have been advised that having “You must be eighteen or over to register as a member of Friendster or use the Web site” in their ToS will cover them. The theory is that if someone lies about their age, they violated the contract and Friendster isn’t liable. The irony is that (generally) people under 18 aren’t allowed to enter into contracts which means Friendster could be liable.

I’m not a lawyer. I just happen to be in the middle of sorting through how to include teen voices in the online space I facilitate while protecting my foundation from liability issues.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 10 May 2004 05:10:52 +0000

One thing I’ve always known,is no matter the original purpose,things take on their own life and grow and grow-don’t bother trying to stop it(tidal waves are hard to catch or stop).