The Pinoy Phenomenon

I wonder what it is about Friendster that got Pinoys so hooked? And with the emergence of better sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Multiply, etc., why do most of us stay loyal to Friendster? I know some who closed their Friendster account, opened one in MySpace and found themselves alone and going back to Friendsterland. Here's an interesting article...

"Meanwhile, scant attention was paid to Friendster's users. Lunt remembers marveling sometime in early 2004 at how Friendster's traffic would mysteriously spike at 2 a.m. Intrigued, he started looking at the site's log. Oh, my God, he thought, everyone is from the Philippines. He worked backwards, looking for "patient zero"--the first American to "Friendster" a Filipino. He found Carmen Leilani De Jesus, a 32-year-old marketing consultant and part-time hypnotherapist from San Francisco, the 91st person to join Friendster. She was directly connected to Abrams as well as to dozens of Filipinos, who'd in turn connected to thousands more. In fact, more than half the site's traffic was coming from Southeast Asia."

I want to be Carmen Leilani De Jesus's friendster. Hehe =).

More here.

Found this on youtube too.