Friendster vs Dogster all ryzing (WR)

What next Catster? Oh geez, a cute search on google reveals that Catster does exist.
In our Web Review (WB) today, we'll be looking at community websites that allow one to co-exist on the web. Sighting the days of 360 degress and the 6 degrees of separation theory. Of course, friendster has come to prove that everyone knows someone, somewhere on this universe called the Internet.

Unfortunately, I have deduced that friendster are a bunch of yuppy 13-18 year olds that update their website by giving terms like "Happy doing what I am doing" as their occupation, while sites like Orkut, by Google are community sites based on geographical representation. Namely Brazil, which in turn has got the Brazilian judiciary jumping up and down trying to haul Google into courts for the "badness" happening on Orkut (27M users, 65% from Brazil alone). But, more on that later. Sorta brings to the subject of tossing a stone in mid air and hitting a university graduate, anywhere in Malaysia, to a higher level :D

Similarly, sites like MySpace (107M users to date) which has exploded into the scene deals with issues at hand. Popular tv star / podcaster host of the famed TechTV show has approximated 12,500 friends in his list and growing. Not to mention that these social networking website are spawned up in the dozens! Most of them via subscription (somewhat like ryze.com: to increase your usability space on the websites), some of them free, but takes ages to load and some of them, just merely as a front for paid advertises.

Whatever it maybe, the Internet has evolved and exploded into Web 2.0, where decentralised, community-based services rule aka social networking and take control of your lives. P2P is on the rise, so are sites like YouTube, which I sincerely don't see a business model in there considering the fact that bandwidth is being chewed up so fast that bandwidth allocations payments are going sky-high.

Needless to say, as users, all these sites "help" us in certain extent to stay sane and connected. The Internet and the World has indeed became a better, yet smaller place to live in. With 24x7 Internet junkies online, sites like this will be here and will definately stay. Human's have this saying that "no man is an island". I guess if that particular island has a broadband connection and a laptop and unlimited power supply from the sun, a man on that island can still be an island with a "happy connected" man.