After shutting down in 2018, platform has been revived by entrepreneur and its new CEO Mike Carson, who reportedly acquired it for around $30,000 through a deal involving Bitcoin and a revenue-generating domain name.

The reimagined version of Friendster positions itself to be more intimate. With its revamped selling points to include the following features such as ‘Friends only’ where there are no “suggested friends” on feed, and having the function to add friends by bringing your phones together while the Friendster app is open on both devices.

Friendster also prides itself on being ad-free and no algorithm-driven feed manipulation, with no bots and no spam and malicious message requests from random accounts and more secured data storing.

Friendster, one of the first social networking websites, launched in 2003 before the rise of other similar platforms such as MySpace and Facebook.