probably. i just logged out of friendster a few minutes ago. havent logged in for a long time. if not for the site transformation, i probably wouldnt have logged in and backed-up the content i want to save. i didnt make use of its exporting tool. i have copies of those photos anyway. and im not much of a fan of my photos either. what i wanted to save were the testimonials and messages.
my friendster testimonials were...incomplete. i remember receiving testimonials from my fake accounts but it wasnt listed in my profile (ive got lots of fake accounts. i even had a "joint account"). well, i guess i wont be able to recover them anymore. what really bugged me were the messages. holy shit. ive completely forgotten about some of those messages and seeing just a glimpse of it...crap. i cant even...or i tried not to read some of those messages. it really bothered me. it bothered me because i really wanted to completely forget about it. and i have forgotten about it if not for the act of trying to save friendster messages. well, i still saved it anyway. i really cant delete such messages. well, i deleted it after making a back-up copy. its those kind of messages that are painful to remember and difficult to erase. and its worth saving because? i dont know. something that has a big impact could be worth something.
anyway, i still remember my first profile pic. it was an ID picture. i still remember my first friend on friendster. he was the one that convinced me to make a friendster account. it was 2003 and his "sales pitch" was, its a good networking site. its a good way of finding old friends. i was initially against the idea of making an account because i dont need a website to communicate with friends. there's real life interaction and there's email (and egroups). i didnt see the purpose of a social networking site. but finding old friends was a good use for it. so i made a friendster acccount. because i wanted to find someone from my past. and i did find them after a few years through friendster. and lost them for good after getting in touch with them. wow, that sucked. its only now that i realized that.
i think in the future, friendster would be one of those things i would find haunting, like those people who lived in the 80's seeing their 80's selves. cant believe i had a friendster account, had those crazy profile pics and exchanged messages with so and so.
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