Friendster launched Friendster Text Alert
Are you tired with Friendster and all the features it has? If yes is your answer then I won’t bother you no more. But if you’re not then this news could be an oasis in the desert of social network. Yeah … just tell me when I’m getting hyperbolic this time.
Starting yesterday at ad:tech Singapore, Friendster, the biggest social network in Asia (yeah, we all know that) will give their users a new feature called Friendster Text Alert. What is this? Is it as “premature” as that mobile version? Hmm, I hope it is not.
This feature will let Friendster users to get notice via SMS regarding their network activity. Shortly speaking, with this feature, FS users will be able to receive text message alerts for events such as friend request, new messages, comments, bulletins, and more. Aside this activity, they can also share and communicate on FS by sending a text message to FS to update content on their profile such as shotouts, create bulletins, send message and reply to friend request.
Friendster users who want to use this service must enter their mobile phone details and choose which mobile text alerts they wish to receive. Good news for FS users since they won’t pay any fee for this service to Friendster, yet they will still keep paying their own network provider.
Availability
Friendster Text Alert is still in a pilot project mode in Philippines right now. But not long after that (in weeks), this service will be available for Friendster hottest market regions such as Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. As an Indonesian FS heavy users, I think this is yet another good idea by Friendster team. I hope that they won’t make another blunder just like the “Alfa” mobile version.
A research said that about 90% of Asia’s mobile phone subscribers use SMS text messaging, and some of the highest per subscriber usage of text messaging is in countries in Southeast Asia. Nah …. this is where I used to called “a statistic which doesn’t looks like that regular statistic in my college class”.
Source: Hit Search Limited
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