Social-networking site Friendster is gaining some enemies in users opposed to the site's new "Who's Viewed Me" feature, which went live late last week and lets people see who has recently looked at
their profile. On the site's forums and across the blogosphere, some users are complaining or even canceling their accounts to protest a feature they believe violates their ability to surf member
profiles anonymously. This, coupled with the way the change was communicated -- through a posting in the site's discussion forums and the necessity to opt out of, instead of in to, the feature -- has
drawn their ire.
Read the whole story at Wired, October 7, 2005 »