Friendster announced Friendster’s new mobile site, accessible at
m.friendster.com from any web-enabled mobile device. The new mobile
site is the first in a suite of forthcoming mobile offerings referred
to as Friendster Mobile.
In
the coming weeks, the site will be available in multiple languages.
Indonesian will be the first additional language, given Friendster’s
large and highly mobile user base in Indonesia where Friendster has
over 8 million registered users and 4 million monthly unique visitors
to Friendster.com, as of March 2008. Shortly, users will be able to
also register directly on m.friendster.com, create an account and
instantly begin participating in the Friendster global community.
In
Asia, where Friendster is the #1 social network, there are currently
over 1.2 billion mobile phone users and over 315 million PC-based
Internet users. The introduction of Friendster Mobile in Asia will
allow hundreds of millions of people who have Internet-ready mobile
devices, but may not have their own PC or access to a PC on a regular
basis, to use Friendster.
“As the 8th largest website in the
world, Friendster is pleased to offer our 70 million users around the
globe the opportunity to access Friendster from their mobile phones,”
said David Jones, vice president of global marketing for Friendster.
“Our users have asked for a mobile site that makes staying in touch
with friends while on the go even easier. We’ve taken our most popular
core social networking features and made them easy to use via mobile
devices at m.friendster.com,” he said.
Users should bookmark
m.friendster.com on their mobile browser of choice to make it even
easier to access their Friendster networks while on the go and tell
their friends about how easy it is to stay in touch via Friendster
Mobile.
Friendster Leads in Asia
Friendster is the #1
social network in Asia, with over 50 million registered users and 34
million monthly unique visitors from Asia.* In Asia, Friendster is more
than twice the size of any other social network. While Friendster has
over 34 million monthly unique visitors in Asia, Facebook has 16
million, MySpace.com and MySpace.cn have only 15 million combined, Mixi
(Japan) has 14 million, CyWorld (Korea) has 13 million, Hi5 has 12
million, Orkut has 10 million, Xiaonei (China) has 7 million, 51.com
(China) has 7 million, and Bebo has 4 million.*
Friendster - A Top 10 Website Globally
Friendster
is the 8th largest Web site and the 3rd largest social network in the
world in terms of traffic, and #1 in user engagement (time spent on
site) among top social networks. Friendster now has 68 million
registered users and 39 million monthly unique visitors. Friendster
continued its healthy growth by adding another 2 million monthly unique
visitors in March 2008 and 9 million monthly unique visitors in the
last 3 months.*