Someone asked us recently how to hack a Friendster account. Of course, we refused point blank as hacking is not only illegal, it is utterly loathsome. It is none of anyone’s business to get inside the affairs of others. We are living in a civilized world in this 21st century, should respect privacy of all and therefore hacking should be abhorred. However; the reality is something different and that is the malady of this new world and generation.
Attempts at hacking Friendster accounts have become a serious menace. A search tag of Friendster + password in Google produced many result pages and a majority in the first 10 pages contained queries or solutions for hacking password in Friendster. Going little deep into the searches revealed that many of the hacking solutions are badly written codes not producing the desired results! And there are offers to hack Friendster account for fees starting from $150/-! It was interesting to read the reasons for hacking to sneak into other accounts; viz. cheating spouses, girl or boy friends; revenge on your boss or other bullies; to steal a secret; to view revealing scandalous pictures; to learn private secrets, etc.
This situation is not only totally unethical but is also highly alarming. If all the private accounts of users online are susceptible for hacking, people will naturally be wary of using online services, which will hit all players badly. Obviously, efforts are on to make all these websites safe and hacker free, but how successful these efforts are going to be, only time will tell.
About Friendster
Friendster.com is a privately owned social networking website, which also happens to be the first in this domain. The later entrants in to this domain are Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc and all of these social networking websites are thriving. Friendster.com facilitates people meeting and making friends, friends’ friends and so on to expand the friendship network by allowing everyone to browse profiles of other registered users. Needless to say, dating forms an inherent outcome of this network. The users are able to share videos, photos, messages, etc.
This website is extremely popular in the Asian continent, beside USA and Australia. The highest numbers of users/visitors are from Philippines, followed by Indonesia, Malaysia, USA, Singapore, Canada, India, Australia, etc. Popularity of Friendster in Asian countries is boosted with the wide option for use of regional languages for browsing in Friendster. The languages include Thai, Malay, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Spanish beside English. Friendster facilitates use of all these languages on a single domain, www.friendster.com and this help people all around the world to talk to each other in their common language. Friendster.com also allows users to subscribe to receive SMS text alerts on their mobile devices on network activity and updates of networked friends.
Friendster.com has over 90 million registered users, logs over 61 million visitors a month and receives approximately 19 billion page views per month. With such impressive statistics, Friendster.com is making it to the top 20 global websites on the basis of web traffic.