I guess the main reason why I don’t even step on Friendster is because this pisses me off. I find it really irritating when I have to switch to my own language everytime I visit the site (in the past), until one day I decided that I shouldn’t even bother looking at it.
I travel and stay around quite a fair bit between Singapore and Malaysia for the past few years. Recently, I was really disappointed by Singtel’s Mobile Broadband and that caused me not to be able to surf much in Singapore as I wasn’t even able to multitask by surfing 2 websites at 1 go. It’s that serious. Now I’ve got M1 Mobile Broadband, and it isn’t any better too. I’ll do a review about it another day — but you know it’s not going to be a good review. But seriously speaking, TMNet Streamyx performs way better than the damn Mobile Broadbands I got in terms of stability. Ok, thats not the point.
Speaking about languages, English has been my primary language since young and that makes Chinese my mother tongue. I don’t get to learn Malay (Or Bahasa) in school and thats why until today I’m no good at the language.
We’ve got facebook right now, and it’s doing way better in terms of surfing experience. Importantly, they don’t select a damn default language for me by my IP Address.
Good bye Friendster. Any other sites that make me read Malay as my default language, I’ll say good bye to you too. [Webmasters, get this into your brains please.]
It’s the day we’re all waiting for – Download Day 2008! Download Day starts at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Tuesday, June 17th.
Download Day is a day set to break the Guinness World Record for the most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours. All you have to do is visit http://mozilla.org/firefox to download Firefox 3 and you’ve done your part. Simple huh?
“We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.”
SpreadFirefox.com
When is Download Day?
Here are some times you can follow:
- Singapore/Malaysia/Beijing/Shanghai/Hong Kong/Taipei/Manila: 18 June at 1:00 AM
- LA/Phoenix/Seattle/Vancouver/San Francisco: Tuesday, June 17 at 10:00 AM
- Brisbane/Canberra/Sydney/Melbourne, Australia: June 18 at 3:00 AM
- Darwin/Adelaide, Australia: June 18 at 2:30 AM
- Auckland, New Zealand: June 18 at 5:00 AM
- Tokyo, Japan: June 18 at 2:00 AM
I’ve listed out some cities randomly. Where are you residing at? If the city you’re staying at isn’t listed here, do refer to this page for the time.
Why Firefox 3?
- New Features – Firefox 3 sets the innovation bar very high with exciting new features, including one-click bookmarking, the smart location bar and lightning fast performance.
- Security – Keeping you and your personal information safe is our top priority. Firefox 3 includes phishing and malware protection, plus our new instant site ID info.
- Productivity – With features like built-in spell checking, session restore and full zoom, Firefox 3 makes it possible to work faster and more efficiently on the Web.
- Customization – Your taste and needs set you apart from the rest. With Firefox 3 you can choose from over 5,000 add-ons that help you customize your browsing experience.
- It’s Free. Free, free of malware, spyware and adware.
In short, Firefox is one of the best browsers, in terms of security, functions, customizability and perhaps user-friendliness.
What can I do?
- Blog about this event. Let the world know about this event.
- Tell your friends about this event via MSN. You can set it as your msn nickname or display message.
- When you’re downloading, let your friends know, so they can download too!
- Go over to facebook/Friendster to share with everyone. Spread it at any sites you can, including iMeem, myspace, etc!
Read more about download day
So, do you plan to help? If so, how? If not, why?
I decided to keep this entry’s title unrelated to Friendster. 4 years ago, I joined Friendster.
Comparing Friendster 4 years ago and now, I find that Friendster hasn’t changed much. Fans, Groups and Schools features were just implemented a few months ago. There’s less spam as compared to previously. BUT, the site hasn’t improved much. There’s nothing that can attract me to surf the site except to view when my friends are celebrating their birthdays. So I usually visit the main page and the page reflecting upcoming birthdays.
Facebook
Facebook is different. When I first saw facebook.com some time back, I thought the site would be something boring. There was only some text on the mainpage and nothing else. No photos at all! That was the reason I didn’t join.
Looking at facebook today, it’s really grown. I start to think of the future with facebook.
Facebook will start to dominate all social networking sites like Friendster. Soon, matchmaking sites will be on facebook.
In time to come, after most people on the Internet has joined facebook, investigators (FBI?)Â may just pop onto facebook to find leads on all cases.
What else? Will facebook or Google know more about you?
My facebook account
You can add me at felix@ker.sg. The picture on the left is to show how attractive the site is. Discover it yourself.
I don’t frequent facebook as much as I visit Google as I find facebook too addictive with all the invitations for the different apps designed by facebookers.
Friends out there, not a facebook members yet? Join now and discover your friends!
Have fun!
A day ago, I posted an entry with title “Beware of this guy from Friendster…”, remember? If you don’t, its okay. If you do and you’re now looking for it – don’t bother, I’ve scheduled it for deletion.
As according to comments by several readers (DK, marina, xizor2000, wd, hendri, Adolf), their advise was to remove the entry as the accuracy of the data was unable to be verified.
Will update with regards to the entry when I get my data right.
Apologies, once again.
Ladies (and gentlemen too), beware of this guy. He works at BUGIS SALON.
 
Don’t say you weren’t warned!
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