Creating a Friendster Profile

Well, there are more important things I should be doing now, but I decided to complete my next goal for 1000 Friends, creating a Friendster profile.

Creating a profile was the standard rigmarole - and the site is set up to handle any country, any state/province, and any city - theoretically. When I picked my country, the state/province field was automatically populated with the 50 states and the various territories and military outposts. Great, that's nice and convenient. When I picked my state - Hawaii - the city field populated. Awesome, right? Well, there was no Kapolei, which is a bona fide city, not some shack on the beach that proudly owns a place name. There were neighborhood subdivisions listed (Makakilo for instance), but no Kapolei. So I choose Honolulu instead.

Later I decided to upload some photos, you know, to plug something in as a profile icon - and uploaded three, one of which was a photo of myself that I doctored to look like my eyes pointed in opposite directions (just for fun). Well, that photo got stuck being the profile photo! I tried moving it, I tried reassigning the "primary photo" but so far no luck.

Eventually I got bored with the site, and actually clicked on an ad titled "Who would be your celebrity cellmate?" and featuring Paris Hilton. Oh the shame.