Friendster
Friendster noun: a friend on the social networking site Friendster.
Noun
Friendster (plural Friendsters)
- A friend on the social networking site Friendster.
- Count my Friendsters: 48 with 4 pending.2003 October 1, Nora Koch, “Social networking a mouse click away”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 175th year, number 123, page E1
- 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...2004, danah boyd, quoted in 2008, Cliff Landis, “Friending our Users: Social Networking and Reference Services”, in Sarah K. Steiner, M. Leslie Madden, editors, The Desk and Beyond: Next Generation...
- A user of the social networking site Friendster.
- 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. […]...2004, Esquire, pages 44 and 46
- 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.)2006, David Pogue, J.D. Biersdorfer, The Internet: The Missing Manual, O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 332
- An account on the social networking site Friendster.
- Consider the hundreds of students from Singapore and Indonesia who create Friendsters for their teachers so that they can write testimonials about them.2005, danah boyd, “Autistic Social Software”, in Joel Spolsky, editor, The Best Software Writing I, →ISBN, page 42
- You are the profile picture in my Facebook; you are my only friend in my Friendster.2010, Jasper Flores Aquino (Kuya Jap), Poems for You, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN
Examples of Friendster in a sentence
- DON’T MESS WITH ME OR MY 346 FRIENDSTERS / Is Friendster more addictive than crack?2004 February, Spin, volume 20, number 2, page 18:
- Uma Thurman hugs me good-bye, and we agree to become Friendsters.2005, Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, Scribner, →ISBN, page 164:
- Friendster also lets users create individual blogs, share photos and video, post to discussion boards, and chat with other Friendsters.2007, Meredith G. Farkas, Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online, Medford, N.J....
- 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”.2008, Matthew Fraser, Soumitra Dutta, Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and...
Forms of Friendster
| plural | Friendsters |
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Origin of Friendster
From friend + -ster.
Questions about Friendster
- What does Friendster mean?
- Friendster means a friend on the social networking site Friendster.
- How do you use Friendster in a sentence?
- DON’T MESS WITH ME OR MY 346 FRIENDSTERS / Is Friendster more addictive than crack?
- What part of speech is Friendster?
- Friendster is a noun.
- What is the plural of Friendster?
- The plural of Friendster is Friendsters.
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