Has anyone tried the new Friendster?

So this morning, we got this mailer:

All the links didn’t work. Tsk, tsk. After Facebook, LinkedIn, Plurk and Twitter, Friendster seems to have taken way too long to rebrand itself—and it’s not a significant change in any case.

Anyway, we decided to log in for the first time this year, so that you don’t have to:

This is the ‘Home’ screen. It now boosts an Activity Stream, which looks like Facebook’s News Feed. It’s also got a Shoutout that looks suspiciously like Twitter updates and Facebook’s status updates. So, er, okay.

The ‘Profile’ page looks the same. If you’re the type who likes to talk about yourself, you can fill up a lot of space with information of yourself. The second part of the page remains Testimonials-driven. Friendster’s renamed “Testimonials” to “Testimonials and Comments” now though. If it makes a difference to them, sure!

‘Fans’ page (yeah, we’ve got a group account):

‘Photos’ page (zzzz):

‘Gifts’ page. Wow, shall we send a ‘Bon Voyage’ gift to Friendster, or is that too literal?

‘Fun’ page. There’s actually a lot of stuff crammed in this, like third-party Apps, Games, Blogs, 3D Scenes and Classifieds. It looked vaguely promising until we selected ‘Games’ and got to this.

Same screen when we selected ‘3D Scenes’.

That’s the end of our Friendster tour then! We won’t be logging in for a bit, so continue to talk to us on Twitter and Facebook, would you?

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