After months of being blocked, Friendster.com is available to the UAE again. Apparenty, Etisalat recieved a lot of complaints against the site because the usual reasons.."it is inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the UAE"

Etisalat said yesterday it has unblocked friendster.com, a popular online community that connects people across the globe. Officials said the site had been blocked or "proxy filtered" after some of its users had posted obscene messages and pictures.

"We have received numerous complaints from our customers regarding this [the obscenities]. On contacting the administrators of the site in question, eCompany failed to receive any feedback on the same," said Abdulla Hashim, a senior manager at Etisalat's Internet arm, eCompany

We would to like thank Etisalat for unblocking such harmless site like Friendster. For the users of Friendster please refrain from posting obscene pictures...like your geeky high school photos..