Friendster Finally Did It
Friendster finally added a feature I had been thinking would be obvious. Wired writes on the new “Who’s Viewed Me?” feature. It lets you see who has viewed your profile. However, you can still browse anonymously, by going to “My Settings.” That preserves your ‘in friendster’ anonymity. If you want more anonymity, you should also select to turn “safe mode” on. This prevents any HTML from loading in the person’s page. A person could find out your IP address and the other information that you give up when you browse to a page. That’s not going to link to your friendster profile though.
2 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post.
This has long been a free feature available at other for-fee online dating sites like jdate.com. As a free feature, it acts something like a tease. You can see who had browsed your profile but you’ll still need to cough up $35/month or whatever to be able to message the other person, declaring your interest in meeting up. Don’t ask how I know this.
Comment by Aharon — 10/7/2005 @ 5:14 pm
[…] ood the process is. Some of Friendster’s actions recently caught my notice — they started allowing Friendster members to see who had viewed one’s profile. […]
Pingback by LuminousVoid » Is Friendster Violating TRUSTe’s Trademarks? — 11/5/2005 @ 11:18 am