I think Andy works for EC as I've seen this post a few times as I've been circumnavigating the web. I should point out that I am connected with Friendster in so much as I am running the Friendster Exposed parties in the SF Bay Area in June and have just started www.markslist.com

So, that said, here's my 2 cents. There's some GREAT feedback and commentary here btw. I started using Friendster and took a couple of weeks to really get into it, but now I'm hooked, I have 70 friends in the system and am linked to over 15,000. The best way to meet people is through your friends and Friendster does a good job of allowing this to happen online. It's next generation matchmaking but without the stigma of matchmaking. You're just meeting new friends. Consequently I'm very impressed with the high response rates from messages and also by how many people have their photos online. Very unusual. Friendster is going 'hotmail,' right now, only because Jonathon took his time in thinking it through and got it right first time with his design of this awesome system. Way to go.