Friendster is an Internet The Friendster site was founded in Mountain view california united states by jonathan abrams in March 2002 and is privately owned. Friendster is based on the
circle of friends
social networkin g and Web of Friends techniques for networking
individuals in virtual communities and demonstrates the small world phenomenon. It currently has 50 million users.Friendster was awarded a patent in 2006 for a method and apparatus for
calculating, displaying and acting upon relationships in a social
network. Dubbed the Web of Friends because the method combines the Circle of Friends with the Web of Contacts,
the system collects descriptive
data about various individuals and
allows those individuals to indicate other individuals with whom they
have a personal relationship. The descriptive data and the
relationship data are integrated and processed to reveal the series of social
relationships connecting any two individuals within a social network.
The pathways connecting any two individuals can be displayed. Further,
the social
network itself can be
displayed to any number of degrees of
separation. A user of the system can determine the optimal relationship
path (i.e., contact pathway) to reach desired individuals. A
communications tool allows individuals in the system to be introduced
(or introduce themselves) and initiate direct communication.
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