Friendster creator Jonathan Abrams gets a little defensive about deleting fake profiles, or "fakesters" (i.e., "Jesus," "Death," "Anna Wintour") from the service: "Friendster's affable chief operating officer, Kent Lindstrom, [says] the only fakesters that the company would likely remove would be ones it received complaints about. (On Friendster, users can 'flag' somebody's profile for the company to review, and write comments about why it offended them.) But Abrams shakes his head emphatically when I mention this. 'No. They're all going,' he says, his voice steely. 'All of them.'" The occasional problem: real celebrities (or pseudo-celebrities, in this case) get kicked off of Friendster because the administrators think the profile is fake.
Attack of the smartasses [SF Weekly]