. ♪ >>> even if you were somewhat internet savvy only, you may not know about friendster.tes on the internet with millions of registered users so far. why so popular? because it shows the world is not such a big and unfriendly place after all. >> social media didn't exist in the '90s at all. it really started in the 2000s with friendster. >> we've all heard that everybody on earth is connected, but now there's a website called friendster. >> it's a new internet service that people can access for free at our website at friendster.com that allows people to network online with their friends. >> within four degrees of me are 700,000 people. it's crazy. >> there are 2 million people on this site. what you do is you put in bios of yourself and pictures of your friends, and then you look to see who is connected to whom. >> social media relies on this really ingenious premise called web 2.0. and what that means is that instead of the owner of the website composing the words and the pictures we the people do that. >> there are many social networking sites on the web but in just a y

was long enough ago and the internet was still young enough and social media was -- it was what, friendsters grandiose. he always talked about it as making a movie every week. i think when we say the word cinematic, what we really mean is opening it up a little bit more, but also the ambition of an action set piece. >> move, move! >> j.j. was very aggressive. he was if you want me to do this pilot, you're going to need to give me the resource in order to do it, and i want to shoot it as a movie, and then we've got to keep that bar up. >> you start off this is a survival drama. here are these people, this plane has crashed. how are they going to get by. how are they going to find food, et cetera. >> we hunt. >> and on top of that, there is this whole mystery where are we, why can't we get a rescue signal? why is there a polar bear? what is going on here? >> the show averages more than 15.5 million viewers each week and spawned countless web locations where millions of avid fans can obsess. >> the fan base is saysing when are you going to answer these mysteries. personally i started feeling h