In the beginning of internet, newsgroup maybe included most popular medium to make a friend and network of friendship. And then chat room came and step over the popularity of newsgroup. Many people choose make a friend in chat room in the IRC server or in the chat room that based on web. Many people meet with friend or make a new friend in the chat room
This is made sense, upon thinking about newsgroup to serious for associate. It is because newsgroup is design to discus about certain topics. In fact, to associate not always about discussion. Maybe to associate, we are happy enough and comfort by only with says “Hi”, without any discussion. Chat room is make able us to chat about usually topics and it means we have a chance to meet many type and character of people.
Afterwards, the method of chatting in the chat room makes internet software spring up. Messenger, who is make possible to us to chatting in the real time and private without disturbed by third party. Indeed we’re need private chatting room, but we are also have instinct to associate with many people, that’s way many internet Messenger also equipped by conference facility, so we can chat with some people at the same time and at the same room.
One problem to associate in internet is undirected communication. Imagine he/she is a new friend, we are don’t know exactly our new friend’s character and also our new friend’s face, we don’t know our new friend is male or female, in fact we don’t know that our new friends is really exist.
We can make sure that our new friends is really exist an have identity if there is another people that can proofed. Who are that another people? Our friends of course, we never doubt to make a friend with friends of our friends, right? This is the answer that friendster give to us.
That’s why friendster so fast obtaining the popularity as social networking. With friendster we are not doubt anymore to make a friend with a new people, social networking in friendster, realized or not is based from recommendation other people or our friend that we knows before. In friendster we are make a friends with friends of our friends.
Not only just make a friend with a new people, by friendster we can easier to find our old friends. Do you have miss your friends when you are in the elementary school, friendster provided facility to find it.