We all know of the pathetic story called Friendster, their valuation and selling themselves woes and how even the clueless bigCo media companies have figured out how worthless they are.

Well they’re trying like hell to look like everyone else now.   They have TypePad blogs and apparently some sort of deal with Grouper.  How do I know?

Cause I just got an invite from an old 1Up.com buddy - Kat.

So I log onto my Friendster account - and guess what I find?

Hmmm - 5 times since Jan. 10th, 2006?  That’s either a clear bug or they’re starting to just outright lie about things - to game their system and pimp it up for sale.  ‘Cause I sure as hell haven’t been there 5 times since - well since 2004 as a matter of fact.  Maybe 5 times all last year.

But no lying or pimping will hide the fact that Friendster is about as hip as listening to the Carpenters with Wayne Newton on SuperBowl Sunday.  While eating your vegetables.

So goodbye Friendster - can’t think of any service that deserves going out of busienss more.  Poor Jonthan Abrams - all that personal wealth gone - poof!

But I’m sure Kleiner, Perkins can afford it.

And what of Scott Sassa?  What happened to him?

UPDATE:  Doh!  My bad - of course that refers to how many times people have viewed ME - oh well, I guess I’m not loved that much.  BTW MySpace was down today - but now it’s back up.

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