The ‘Friendster’ized Malaysian Indians!
Before I proceed further, this post will be focusing on how Malaysian Indians’ teenagers are stuck with Friendster, a social networking site. If you don’t know anything about Friendster or are curious to know more about it, well, you are free to either ignore or stick with this post. It’s your call!
First and foremost, I too, like others, have a Friendster account. Let me stress it again, A Friendster account. Now, let me decipher some of the ‘things’ that I found to be stupid enough when relating it with Malaysian Indians users.
1) Primary Photo Display
For god’s sake, It’s your profile, It’s your account and obviously, you should be putting your picture(s) in it, and not some rip-off images from Indiaglitz or Behindwoods! Usually, Indian girls would prefer to do this kind of stuff, where as they would love to upload tons and tons of celebrity images taken from the web, and the common preys would be Asin and Trisha. I had enough of seeing these two faces comprising most of the said “Indian girls Friendster users” who are reluctant to put their own picture. And, for those Indiaglitz rippers, have you noticed the Copyright note at the bottom which says the following?
Copyright 2008 IndiaGlitz. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
2) Primary Photo Display - The Caption
Allright, you might give some excuses saying that you don’t have any camera phones or digital cameras or normal cameras or whatever. Fine! But, what’s up with those captions of Asin’s or Trisha’s photo saying It’s meeeee!!! or a picture of Surya with the caption my hubby!!! Don’t you think that sounds childish? If Jothika’s sees that, she could file a lawsuit against you, mind you!
3) Camwhoring
The most annoying thing in Friendster would be camwhoring! One static position of yourself caught from various angles ranging from 45° to 180° won’t do anything good, rather than disappointing those guys in wanting to see various photos of yourself, and not various ANGLES of one particular photo of yours! Please do consider this in future!
4) Profile design
Do you think 5 Youtube videos, a flash music player, 4 bandwidth-consuming images and not forgetting, 4 flash games in your profile would draw visitors to your profile? Certainly not! Either their browser would be crashed or they would scroll halfway and quit viewing your profile. Some examples of those bandwidth-consuming images would be those “bling-bling” images, “glitter” images and so and so. Ohh, and some images showing texts such as “I’m too hot” or “Gorgeous Girl” and so and so. I’m not condemning you (Am I?) for putting these images but please think from a visitor’s perspective by considering the amount of videos, flash games and streaming audios to be included in your profile. Even my browser had crashed several times just because of a person’s heavy-loaded profile.
5) Popularity
XXX FuLL, XXX FuLL 2, XXX NEW … Are they familiar to you? Well, this simply shows that the person ‘XXX’ is more interested in gaining inner popularity, and they believe by having more friends and/or testimonials, they would be well-known! Congrats for their great mentality! I don’t even think they would have at least, messaged or keep in touch with 100 friends in their ‘friends’ list since the beginning until now or correct me If I’m wrong! Friendster is a social networking site and you should socialize thyself by sending messages, keeping in touch often and greeting them from time to time. That is the exact definition of ’social networking’ and not by adding a person just for the sake of having more friends. If you are one of those who loves to keep in touch, well, a big salute to you!
6) Names and details
When it comes to names, obviously you should be putting your name. But why the hell I could see some idiots noobs self-proclaiming themselves to be Cute Princess, Lovely Baby, BabyGurl, CutieGal, GorgeousGal, PinkyHot and all those retarded names? I’m now considering to change my name to something like “MachoGuy” or “CoolHotGuy” and I shall wait and see the amount of messages flowing into my inbox, if and only if that name plays a big role in driving more visitors to my profile!
And, when it comes to profile details, or to be specific, the “About Me” and “Who I Want To Meet” section, sOme oF tHe nOObs tEnD t0 wriT3 LyK d!s N tHuS, mAk1nG u$ sICk 0f r3ADInG tHeIr sEntEncE$! In addition, they would love to spice up their sentences with their badly-broken english! No offence!
Lastly, adhering back to Point 1, please take your precious time to view the Friendster’s Photo Policy:
We suggest you upload a high-quality photo of yourself that is both clear and current. Get as creative as you like! But please do not upload photos containing nudity or copyrighted images such as celebrity photos or illustrated cartoon characters. Photos depicting gore or hateful themes are also not permissible.
I know there are more than a million users who have tons and tons of celebrity images uploaded into their account but do take note, a single click at the link which says Report Offensive Content could make your profile to be flagged and would be subjected for removal/suspension/banning.
And, please don’t tarnish our names and let others think that “Indians are stupid enough for not reading and adhering to the rules“!
*I’m just expressing my point-of-views and not in the intention of offending or hurting anyone. I believe there are many people who are not included in the lists above and my utmost respect shall be with you!
REPOST THIS IN YOUR FRIENDSTER’S BULLETIN BOARD OR ELSE, A GIRL NAMED JENNY SHALL STAB YOU TONIGHT. AND, IT IS A REQUEST FROM MR. ALLEN SMITH AS WELL, THE CEO OF FRIENDSTER! HAHA
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64 Responses for "The ‘Friendster’ized Malaysian Indians!"
mmm…u r correct man
as a gurl, i gotta agree with u….
but not all of dem are like dat k! hehehe!
I always flame people with this type of profile…. 100% agree with your points…
I hate the most are those “cam”whores taking pointless pictures.
Plz guys; stick to one object in your profile. Keep in mind those tmnut 1515 users who can t afford those bandwidth …..
using l337 language doent mean u r cool…. it just gives more headache… some even use strikethrough font. which is harder to read….
Friendster was much better few years ago
. its now filled with brats and camwhores 
brruuaaaghhhhh…cant stop laughing…u wrote out every1’s disatisafcation against those p*ssy!!!damn irritating nah…people dont seems to ustd the motive of social networking….
Bro i gotta agree wit ur comments!!!…Ur points r freakin infinite% correct..esp. ur comments on indian gurls who uses “CUTE” names!!
2 those who r offended by my words….sorry guys coz i freakin dun care!!!!!
Who the hell they think they are!!! Friendster 2day are seriously being contaminated by these gals!!!
Thanks for the support guys!
Anyway, I’m still waiting for someone to bash me up, especially the gurls!!….
Makkez,,
That type of people wont care of reading blogs n other more important stuff… Most of them only know ” friendster, msn, yahoo, …” NOT malaysia-today.net, malaysiakini, makkez, bmahendran n the rest…
someone plz flame me!!
Bro well said. Funny la bro.
I’ve wrote few things about this few years back in my friendster blog.
About adding friends
http://ragedindian.com/?p=15
About survey in friendster
http://ragedindian.com/?p=18
About the pictures and names that you put in friendster
http://ragedindian.com/?p=19
Enjoy reading !
agree with u 100%…..eh..but not only gals do that u know….i have come across guys uploaded dis actress pic n sayin their gf n all crapz…adiozz…gals,dun so sticked with dis actress n actors..dey aint ur world….
@Durai
Thanks for the links!
@rubenee
Well, even though my article is kinda skewed more to the girls, but overall, it is for the both sexes!
very well said..so true..mayb this will bring back gals 2 their senses..
its a very gud article but i dont think it only goes to the girls but also to the guys dhari..maybe u have not viewed any guys profile for u to realize it !
over roll..this article really made some sense…keep in up !
You know some people will put a total slutty image of themselves as the primary pic and they will have this part where they say ” I hate some *ss h*les that adds unknown strangers”.. That is annoying.. And, some guys who puts pic of all the liquor in the world and them being wasted.. That’s is dumb also..
u knw wat.. the world is not as safe it was 10 no 5years ago.. u told about not putting one’s own picture as primary pic rite.. well u r rite bout that its your profile n u should put ur own pic n all but come to thnk bout it.. a simple right click n save as.. the pic will be already in a strangers hand.. n it is jz soo easy to misuse a girl’s pic nwdays…
nyway thats jz my humble opinion.. overall, good article man! looking foward for more..
i certainly agree with this..people are growing so inmature. and what can i say about indian girls and boys..always been an inmature.so all i can say is GROW UP!!…for god’s sake..love you all..muahx
hahahahahah… you have pointed out all my disatisfaction on the indian girls on friendster! i especially hate those with the celebrity pictures like trisha and asin as their primary pictures saying its them! come on! have u seen those kind of guys with liquor bottles and cigaratte buds with captions like ” im livin my lurfe” or ” kewl man”.. hahaha.. but i must say, these profiles amuse me when im having a bad day. as a girl, i really wish our indian girls change a little and put a fullstop to all that, BLINGS AND IMAGES AND VIDEOS AND ALL THAT FUNNY HEADACHE GIVING WRITING IN THEIR PROFILE. so typical!
P/S: great article! love to see more from you! but one thing, you should write somethings about some of the indian guys profile too. its getting preety sick and gross day by day.
@Kavita
You are right! The world is not safe now. You might be walking to the nearest shop and in a blink of eye, a car might hit you and run away. That doesn’t mean you should be worried about that throughout your life don’t you?
@suloshiny
If you could further elaborate on how ’sick’ and ‘gross’ the indian guys’ profiles are nowadays, that would be helpful!
well i agree with the celebrity looks but just the celebrity looks and i think the rest is up to the users so please mind your own business and stop being a girl dun u have any other work to do. lso wats wrong if i out 5 videos so wats wrong if i snap in many angels. i n not editing my profile for u its for me so my wish.and dats ame.
ei lame..
i guess you ar one of the offended person so that’s y you ar talking like that!!! hahaha!
and, your english SUCKS! it is ANGLES you idiot n not ANGELS…..!!!
i gotta totally agree with the article.. most of the indian gurlz ar like that! those who cant accept it, get lost!!
hmm…u must have been using frienster from day one…ur points are true, i have to agree with you!
so, just incase people who have tons of picture which is not urself, upload at least one saying that other pic’s are ur idol, not saying it’s ur hubby or wifey, hehe…give life a change ya!
ReSpecT!
hey ppl i notice 1 things wit gals wit most of the things dat has been said…most of these profiles are frm young imature girls…young meaning aroung 12, 13, 14 years old…
i totally agree with u bro
a big salute for u
Lame,
I Say you’re indeed lame
thanx.. dats y i m lame. hahahahaha. but still ur comment is lame. get a life.
i agree with u lame. really lame idea.
lame = murugan = same IP address!
Too bad, your massive planning has failed miserably!
A quick trace of your email address reveals your Friendster ID:
http://profiles.friendster.com/23556828
A Kazakhstan gal studying at APIIT? I don’t think this article is targeted neither to you nor to your ethnics, so it is better for you to stay away.
hey hahas..sorry bt i totally agree wif u dat some m’sian gals they put pics of trisha..simran..jothika asin..n more…
anyway…watever is said above is true.. 
i mean we s’pore galz dnt do dat…we jus put our faces no matter hw old! or hw ugly..we jus wanna b natural….n alz0 we upload photos dat could b shared wif ur frenz in friendster like family pic..n stuff
i sumtymes wander y they’re doin dat..come on gals..u wanna hav a frensta acc….jus g0 ahead…put ur pics..theres no harm…
friendster is like for getting to knoe new frens nt to seek attention…
n ya ok abt d names erm dat one i’ve gt nothin to say la..itz up to dem wat they wanna put…hehe cos..i maself did’nt put ma real name
n to whoever peeps who put actress pic as ur primary pic…u r beatiful enough to upload ur own pics..oryte…
cheers
Lol. What a cheap tactic murugan aka lame. Dumb kid. Good work makkez. I hope you felt like slapped lame aka murugan.
Hey man!!…truely accept this fact’yaar!!…if u like an actor or an actress…come on…give a damn man!!
juz giv a caption sayin ma favourite star…”rather than sayin its me, check it out…”how STUPID!!… 
evry1 is perfect in their own way..so y dun u try uploadin ur pic instead,..u know how good looking are you’na??..juz chck out da mirror NOW 4 a while.. 
Moreover, y dun ppl just use thier real names or nicknames/callin names for their profile…if u wanna collect true frenz, thn u shud try usin sum original details abt u…no need to be too perfect or long if u’re not interested…however,juz “keep it short & simple” (KISS), and of cos, slightly original detailed…well, thats my opinion’yaar…NO OFFENCE TO ANYONE!!…what i wrote is what i thought!
cheers frenz!!
dear makkez,
well, for example, i really dont get it, which part of ” pictures containing nudity are not allowed” dont they understand? i’ve come across so many of the boys profiles with those kind of pictures and comments. do they think its cool?? oh gosh! hahahaha… its sick!! how can people find “coolness” in those kind of pictures??
it looks more like you’re viewing some porn website instead of some legal social networking website! sadly, most of these profiles have all been indian boys. Its preety sad because nowadays when my friends look at any indian guys on the road, somehow, they tend to past some nasty comments about them and the way they’re dressed up. they get this statement that every indian guy is cheap and disgusting just by viewing some ugly profiles on friendster! thats not fair!
What can I say, the world is going topsy turvy and everything is going not in the way it should be. anyway, great job done! awesome article.
Something worth reading….
can i add some salt and pepper to make it a little more
interesting..?? haha…
ur post was worth the time…tho im indian myself but i do find it pathetic for ppl to actually claim its themselves in pictures for which they are not…dis article has points of which make sense as a mistake of many i assume meaning all races
u have an account too mr.editor?
where gt other indian…like “Malayalees”..Telungu..or Brahmin…put or upload celeb pic….
only tamil PPL….or tamil GirLs..so u ” KutUk Tamil Girls..la…not Other Indian..oke….Diffrent Race …dif Attitude….mind that!!
SO TRUE!
everytime someone with some stupid name or unoriginal picture msgs me or sumthing, i get so turned off!
whats wrong if ur own name???
i get it if u dun wanna put up ur pic, due to d what some perverts may do 2 it (wtf?), but what will they do 2 ur name?
and i agree that this kinda thing comes mostly from indians…
so u guys out there, its ur own fault that indian gurls (some) are going for guys of different race, etchinicity & nationality! n dun u dare say crap like we shudnt be with those guys coz we “belong 2 u”…
nuh uh, dun even go there!
n those ppl who name themselves “gorgeous”, “cute”, “dashing”, “hot” and all that shit, pls get over urself!!!
1 thing i do not appreciate about this article is that its rather sexist..
a lot about indian gurls, but not much bout indian guys…
would be better if there wasnt a discrimination, n just stuck 2 just indians…
otherwise, BRAVO!!!
well i realy and totaly agree wit,, tats rite i have go through all tis stuff,,,people often get me fooled,,ha ha atleast by commenting on tis tey tend to over come their stupidity…peace ya all
@suloshiny
The “pictures containing nudity are not allowed” part refers to pictures that have been uploaded, and not inclusive of those “comments” images. Though I have seen some ‘dirty’ comments, but I’m yet to see any nude pictures being uploaded into one’s account!
@Sarah
Well, of course I have!
@Friendster a.k.a. Swapna Babu
It’s the mentality of people like you that breaks us apart. Do you have any source saying that only “Tamil girls” do like that? It looks like you have some ire on those Tamil girls! Any past experience maybe?
Makkez,
I agree with your claims and your views you have shared, but you must agree that you are being sexist and your article is stereotyped on Indians alone. I did notice almost all the girls under ‘that’ category is mainly Tamils of our community but you must also admit that our Chinese, Malays and other races does the very same thing.. and mostly girls, admittedly.
To correct those of you who might be thinking I’m contradicting myself, I pledge for you to open your eyes to a wider scope of those non-Indian users. I could be wrong but most of the above posts seems to come from people who rarely opens or even come across other race s’s profile. There are guys and girls(other race) with profile picture of Hollywood and China mainland (Wat-wood??) based celebrity pictures and not forgetting irksome names and captions.
I am not proclaiming war of mouth and what not on other races, my request here is we shouldn’t be sexist and stereotype on a certain race and bash on them for a year. And fellow guys who keeps on posting ‘Tats rit’ ‘gals r dumb’ and all that, try surfing tro’ and you will notice Vikram(M cool!!), Surya(I hv Steel Body), Vijay(Kuruvi aditchaaa…) and more craps cropping out from fellow guys. those in brackets are what I often notice to be either Nicknames or Captions.
So, overall teenagers(to be honest, I’ve never seen adult’s profile as such) need to act more mature. And to Subashini, I totally agree with you that most of the Malaysian user’s are the one crapping around with plagiarized material from Indiaglitz n whatsoever…
Best regards…
Dear MP,
Well, as you said, I gotta agree that my article is skewed more to the Indian girls compared to “Indians” alone but overall, “siapa yang makan cili, dia yang rasa pedasnya!”
As for the chinese, malays and/or other races, I have neither mentioned anything about them being obedient nor condemned them as being disobedient, as I hardly surf profiles of other races and I have no reason on why I should include them in this article, as the core purpose of this article is to be an eye-opener to the Malaysian Indians teenagers specifically!
cheers.
tamil girls…n tamil people…
tak boleh di percaya….penipu…
they don`t belive with tamil guys..tat`s y they upload celeb pic`s….
hmm i dun quite understand what wwf said..lol..but anyway i’d agree with the editor that the person above named “friendster” has gone far from being right!!…seems pretty shallow to have passed a remark like dat
Nowadays indian or tamilian does not even matter, mainly because unity does!!it’s ppl like dis who are a PAIN!!plz refer back to the topic, it states Malaysian indians!!u must understand dat tamil ppl originate from the indian subcontinent..mainly southern!!so dis means that indians are of different ethnic groups and u mayb any of the mentioned above but ppl who make a mistake on friendster could be either one!! not like how u mentioned it, “friendster”!!
-how wud i be able to view ur profile mr.editor?do u have blogs there as well??
Ah well, It’s better now that you said no comments on other races rather than condemning Indian Teenagers..
I quite agree with Sarah on her reply to “Friendster”’s remarks..
It is obvious Indian’s are minority and people like you with thick sense of ‘inter-racial’ sensitivity as on the sub-races and castes that makes us all grow apart even further.
..and I am guessing that “Friendster” is a Malayalee.
Chill bro, we are one…
super.. u r rite
im no more in friendster.. i like facebook 
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exactly!
facebook is so much better.. u rarely see this kinda crap there on facebook, but on friendster its like some kinda trend (*puke) or sumthing!
@Sarah
Well, for somewhat reason, I wish to remain anonymous!
And, I don’t have any blogs in Friendster as this is my only blog.
@Raaja and Tarra Shaliny
Well, gotta agree with both of you. At least Facebook is better, as their main priority is professionalism. If all these jerks migrate to Facebook, then it would be a big chaos.
mr.editor…it’s no problem at all…i understand!!hehe…i guess i’ll catch up on ur blogs here:P..n MP and Tarra have got their part well said!! Facebook is way better cuz there is no such nonsence!!hopefully there wont be any in the time to come until retards like dis exist
1. [Only tamil girls…do like tat..simply put celeb pic`s..in profile..
where gt other indian…like “Malayalees”..Telungu..or Brahmin…put or upload celeb pic….
only tamil PPL….or tamil GirLs..so u ” KutUk Tamil Girls..la…not Other Indian..oke….Diffrent Race …dif Attitude….mind that!!]
2. [tamil girls…n tamil people…
tak boleh di percaya….penipu…
they don`t belive with tamil guys..tat`s y they upload celeb pic`s….]
Dear Tarra Shaliny & Sarah,
U girls are really smart…!!! Its nothing wrong on your comments bcoz its been & being your culture & habit >>> because Diffrent Race …dif Attitude….mind that<<< where smartly desolate your society (not the whole society - Malayalees, Telungu & Brahmin) from the Indian identity
– whenever there are any problem or criticises on India community you pupil will address your self as a newly born race & start to put the blame on the TAMIL community!!!! Great escapism by non-Tamizhiyan!!!
If Tamil pupil achieved something great then the scenario will be vice verse, ur girls will proud to identify yourself as a member of ‘Indian Community’ and the wondering part is you girls will not mention the achiever as a Tamizhiyan!!!
Both of u are a great culprit, problem makers, orthodox, not well educated and uncivilized girls.
Pls refer to your communities’ histories. I kindly request you girls to understand the actual definition of ‘Race, Tamil & Indian’. Pls try to improve and polish up your knowledge then tend act smart ok…. Don’t create a bad thought on your own community…!!!
My dear great Tamil Makkal,
pls forgive them bcoz they don’t have enough knowledge on Indian, Tamil and Dravidian Histories, they are kinda pupil who just looking for fun and leisure, so they wont think before drop their word & ideas.
Nandri @ Thank you
Dear Tarra Shaliny & Sarah,
Im very sorry i wrongly mention u girls name. Im really sorry for my careless.
Actually my comment pointed to ‘Friendster & wwf’
sorry Ms Tarra Shaliny & Sarah
yeah i was wondering shuba….it’s alrite!! u betta be lucky u realise ur mistake or it wud be ww3 here!!haha….
Shuba,
Thank god you posted a second comment admitting your earlier mistake!
Otherwise, this post would lead to a serious dispute between you against Tarra and Sarah!
Chill!
Being born as an INDIAN is nothing so great if you people dont know how to live as one!!!
Those morons who like classifying themselves as a superior class within the community are nothing but a god damn insulted mutant… This is the root cause for all the god damn discrimination in this country… Dont blame the goverment entirely for all the mishaps that had happened in the near past…The least you could do to help our community is by being civilized enough to stay together…DAMN you wwf and Friendster (Shame on you)
My god Miss Shuba…
I was having some fun reading your first 2 paragraphs..
..but was utterly perplexed at your remaining post;-
really lucky for you for realizing your error or trust me, as Sarah said, there will be a virtual war of comments on this page;p
..I believe ‘Friendster’ can be forgiven because he or she seems to be stark dumb by making that comment..
An usual sign of what we call ‘loosin the nuts’
As for ‘wwf’, I think this person must be escorted for a psychiatric session and placed under intensive care(Tanjung rambutan would be my suggestion)..
He or She is seriously in a mental deluded state and is probably battling with some serious mental illness..
Hope you will recover soon.. or never at all as long as you don’t throw your mouth open on the issue of ethnicity…
chumma comments atheruthele….!!!
very nice and eye opening article…well i do agree that most indians in friendster dont really know how to use friendster in a proper manner….well i used to have quite a number of games and few applications posted on my friendster profile…..but reading ur post made me think is it necessary for me to post all that in my profile….n i immediately deleted all the applications n games….really opened my eyes….thnx fren…
hope more ppl will be aware of the proper usage of friendster by reading ur article….
well,,in conclusion,,,i agree on what ever u said,,especially fakiing up ur profile pic,,
worst is using other people’s pic and claming to be them..
haha.. So TRUE!! Trisha and Asin, Victimized. Ur damn good la!
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x really agree bout d “about me ‘ section ….wel ..dats pplz creativity
wen dey can cum up wif wrdz lyk dat !!!!!!!!
n wen derz sum1 huz x interested in readin it ….den u can jz f**k off…..get d hell outta d profile !!!!!!!!!!!
never think for future after a ten years is our community will survive of course no so make the changes from now like we changed the samy velooooo say no to muthal indian congres mic and every body try to make some turning point ………
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