Privacy
Friendster Throwing Bizarre Errors
Friendster, the once-hot social networking pioneer that’s long been overshadowed by Facebook and MySpace, has fallen upon hard times in recent years. Not only have they gained a reputation for unreliability, even their unreliability has fallen beneath the mainstream media’s radar. It’s gotten so bad that they’ve been unsuccessfully trying to shop themselves around in Asia.
Now Friendster’s homepage is throwing back all sorts of weird errors. Sometimes you’ll get gibberish, sometimes you’ll get a blank page, sometimes you’ll get foreign-language versions, and sometimes you’ll get pictures from random users’ profiles. I’ve been reloading the site over and over again just to see who I’d get.
Privacy concerns aside, this little social network meltdown roulette is both sad and amusing at once.
Tracy Isabel Borres’ Statement on Facebook Scandal
Filipina college student Tracy Isabel Borres recently interacted with the indigenous Filipino Aeta tribe on an Ateneo de Manila University field trip. She posted nasty things about the tribe on her Facebook page, for only her friends to see. She thought the posts were funny.
One of Tracy’s Facebook friends did not find the posts funny. She found them so unfunny that she took screenshots and circulated them via email. The screenshots are now making the rounds on Filipino mailing lists.
I find Tracy’s posts horribly racist. In fact, I find them so offensive that I will not republish them here. Maybe they were meant to amuse her friends, but they certainly did not amuse me. Nevertheless, I do not condone her friend’s treachery.
I decided to hear Tracy’s side of the story. Here’s her statement. Click here to continue reading “Tracy Isabel Borres’ Statement on Facebook Scandal”…
