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5 Million Filipino Friendster users?

I was doing a quick post over at Pinoy.Tech.Blog about “Friendster Ads for Php20 ” when I stumble upon their stats that claim there are 5 Million Filipino Friendster users.

Figures from Internet World Stats pegged the number of online Filipinos at 7.82 Million in 2005 (compared to only 2 Million in 2000). That means a little over 3 out of every 5 people who have access to the internet have a Friendster account.

That’s a real good subscription rate. But I guess that 5 Million includes duplicate accounts, ghost and anonymous accounts most people use to lurk around Friendter looking for pictures.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

26 Responses

  1. Avatar for valet parking valet parking says:

    First Off, good posting in Philippines, Technology News & Reviews, just wandering through some web sites, seems to be a really efficient package you are utilising. Why didnt I remember about this? I would actually like to read more on this matter.

  2. Avatar for rasheed rasheed says:

    kantutero aq bkit tsu2paen nio q?>?????

  3. Avatar for rasheed rasheed says:

    cnung gusto pakantot pede aq!!!

  4. Avatar for sara sara says:

    hi i just want to know all da friendster email in all filipinos specially my crush roybben benitez…..

  5. Avatar for Mia Marie Mia Marie says:

    Ahm..For me, friendster is d besT..!!! I’m not yet adDict..because na sa iyo naman yon kung mag papa aDdiCt ka..Ryt? Ginawa niLa anG friendster so that we can communicate to our friends, relatives, CRUSH (ahem) and alSo to our family..buT i hopE that the oMg pUt sOme oTher fUnny and enJoyabLe thiNgx..pAra maS mArami pa ung mAg reGister..tSaka pAra mas mAsAya..

  6. Avatar for gina gina says:

    i just wanted to make a suggestion to friendster developers… based on my experience, there is a person who used my name to create an account, used my photo, put my face on a nude photos… it’s really disgusting. i just learn about this through my friend who search for my name and told me that why i’ve upload such photos.

    although there is note on friendster that members should not post nudity on this site.. why other users are still posting those kind of photos.

    suggest to please make sure that there are incharge on filtering of photos that are being posted on friendster.

  7. Avatar for karen karen says:

    hay,,, naku ang hirap mag friendster lalo na kapag mabagal ang internet noh..,,

  8. Avatar for paolo paolo says:

    im quite hooked in the net. in friendster for example, i have 10 accounts, each with more than a thousand friends each. i guess that 5 million doesn’t really translate that 5 million different individuals have friendster site. but still, the figure is awesome. good thing that friendster had updated their site wherein you can have several thousand friends on one account, at least you dont have to keep on creating new one just to accomodate all the pending invites to you. ^_^

  9. Avatar for sphincter sphincter says:

    Do a search on Friendster. Any country, and 90% of the profiles shown are Filippions….

  10. Avatar for spider spider says:

    frienster is da best! talaga they should put more a lot of interesting thing to edit your profile its fun you make friends and all that stuff! but for me my space is the best than anyone else

  11. Avatar for Jesol Palada Jesol Palada says:

    Friendster Rules!…hahahaha!….puta na yan…walang tatalo sa friendster….dapat lagyan nila ng chat para mas enjoy….yung madali gamitin yung user interface

  12. Avatar for Filipino Friendster World Filipino Friendster World says:

    Maybe this is true kasi filipinos are really friendly. Sana magregister din kayo dito: http://www.filipinofriendsterworld.com/

    Thanks.

  13. Avatar for CHESTER CHESTER says:

    d noh! it’s more than 5million friendster user hir in our country, sa skul p lng nmin, almost all students have frindster.. it can be compared kung cno yung my fone, meron ding frndstr, e ang dami ding my fone

  14. Avatar for sphincter sphincter says:

    I find that really easy to believe. When you search ANY country for people, 80% of the people displayed are Philipinos living around in those countries. Try it out!

  15. Avatar for Mylez Mylez says:

    It only means that Filipinos are Friendster addict….I wonder how it started????

  16. Avatar for malufet malufet says:

    honestly……i also have a friendster account..wait a minute..are we anti’s???great job for that friendster!!don’t really know how it spread so fast.
    malufet!

  17. Avatar for Alfie Alfie says:

    yeah, maybe the number bloat because of duplicated account. I, for example, have 5 accounts for my 5 different personalities. bwahahaha. :))

  18. Avatar for kzap kzap says:

    i think there are a lot more online filipinos. like how many play online games alone?

  19. Avatar for The Ca t The Ca t says:

    yugz,
    check my entry about top technorati bloggers.

  20. Avatar for Abaniko Abaniko says:

    some have multiple friendster accounts. don’t you think that in the stats, they assume 1 account = 1 filipino? this then bloats the total figure. but it’s interesting that we have this many filipino firendster accounts. what about filipino blogs?

  21. Avatar for Gelay Gelay says:

    Over 7 Million? Kasama din diyan ang mga group accounts, hehe. :)

    So does that include most Filipino Friendster users around the globe?

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