Facebook the next Friendster ?!

November 18, 2009 in Social Media by Golden Blogger

Facebook, the strongest ever virus which has infected more than 500 million people! Much more poisonous than swine flu or chicken flu. Seems it has turned into a syndrome, an infection where if you get inside it will be impossible to quit. Anyway this article is not for the brainwashing of people using Facebook (and playing senseless games for 5-7 hours straight) but for another interesting fact I “discovered” while surfing over at Alexa

Alexa is an Amazon site which deals with statistics and analysis of millions of websites

If you check the TOP 500 Global Sites in the world, you are going to see that the most visited websites are Google, Facebook & Yahoo. Actually what amazed me was the title of the Facebook listing which is something like “Facebook, the next Friendster” Check the image below for a solid proof

Facebook Next Friendster

If you actually see Facebook’s page over at Alexa you will see the following description:

Facebook on Alexa

Now wait a minute? Is that an error or it was done on purpose? I check Alexa standings frequently so that was not there like 7-8 days ago

Don’t you think is a bit interesting, Facebook the next Friendster? Friendster is another social networking site but not as big as Facebook so whats the purpose of comparing Facebook with Friendster

Let us see what the big guys (press) will say about this and I don’t believe its a “glitch” or a bug in the system

EDIT: Ironically they have fixed the bug in less than 12 hours, congratulations for your due diligence