Prepare a New Design, Friendster will Delete User Data

Friendster, the pioneer of social networking site, launched in 2002 before the era of Facebook, has been struggling for years to continue its existence.

Friendster Tuesday (26 / 4) announced that they will soon reveal the redesign is intended to give new identities Friendster - but as part of the update that Friendster will delete the user data stored on the site.

An email sent on Tuesday to registered users, told to wait for "new Friendster site and perfected in the next few weeks," said CNN in its report.

Friendster also warned them that their account profiles that exist today, the photos, messages, blogs and other posts will be removed on May 31. Basic profile and friends list will be saved for each user.

Friendster offers exporter application in their site that allows users to download their content or move it to third party sites such as Flickr or Multiply. Friendster did not specify a new identity in question, but it seems to position itself as a destination for unofficial games.

Sites that collect nearly 50 million dollars from investors for years, but technical problems and a general failure to compete with the time destined to run well status.

Traffic Friendster and the number of active users remained low. Current owners, Malaysia internet company, MOL Global, bought the site late in 2009 reported a price of 26 million dollars.

If Friendster was not able to get up, he will become another victim of the kingdom up, who almost kicked the other competitors like MySpace in its efforts towards total domination of the Internet.

Games and other applications have exploded in this platform, delivery companies like Zynga Farmville makers and even share the results of their profits.

Facebook today has the patents of many social networking features that aided his popularity Friendster. Secretly bought up the patent portfolio of MOL Friendster last year, giving intellectual property rights to discoveries such as connecting users in social networks, linking related information outside the database, and attract users to upload and share their own content.

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