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1. www.slashgear.com › 834024The Untold Truth Of Friendster - SlashGear

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   Jan 24, 2023 · Before TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook -- even before MySpace -- there was Friendster. Here's why the original social network collapsed.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › FriendsterFriendster - Wikipedia

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   After the launching of Friendster as a social gaming platform in June 2011, the number of registered users reached over 115 million. The company operated mainly from four Asian countries: the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore, and over 90% of the site's traffic came from Asia.

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4. d3.harvard.edu › platform-digit › submissionBefore Facebook there was… Friendster? Yes, that’s right!

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   Mar 21, 2020 · Where is Friendster today… Well, the simple answer is it doesn’t exist. But before its unspectacular disappearance, it was sold to a Malaysian company, MOL Global, for $26 million in 2019.

5. medium.com › the-story-of-friendster-c095201b7a6fThe Story of Friendster. Created in 2002, Friendster burst ...

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   Aug 24, 2023 · Created in 2002, Friendster burst onto the burgeoning social media networking scene with a bold premise: to help users connect and reconnect with friends and help them find a date....

6. www.chron.com › business › articleDo you remember MySpace and Friendster? This is the ... - Chron

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   Jun 30, 2021 · And until 2004, a young university student from Harvard University placed the icing on the cake, and created the most important social network, today, in the world: Facebook.

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7. www.youtube.com › watchThe Story of Friendster: The First Social Network's Rise and ...

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   Journey back to the dawn of social networking and discover the incredible story of Friendster, the platform that paved the way for today's social media giant...

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   Is Friendster the biggest social networking platform in the world today?

   • Had things gone a little differently, Friendster might be the biggest social networking platform in the world today. According to Jim Scheinman, an early investor in Friendster, there was a time when Friendster almost bought Facebook before it became the 800-pound-gorilla it is today, (per Business Insider).

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   Was Friendster the first social media platform?

   • But before Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, even before Myspace, there was Friendster. In many ways, Friendster served as the digital blueprint upon which other social media platforms were built. It even attracted some pretty big names as early users. Matthew MConaughey and Senator John Kerry both had profiles, (per The Baltimore Sun).

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   How did Friendster impact social media?

   • Friendster is credited with “giving birth to the modern social media movement,” according to Chenda Ngak (2011), and the argument can be made that social media would not be what it is today without Friendster’s impact. While the platform ultimately failed, Friendster walked so that sites like MySpace and Facebook could run.

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   How many users did Friendster have?

   • It grew to several hundred users within a few weeks and grew to over 3 million users by early 2003. [i] Friendster became the world’s first social media platform that engaged the mainstream. Friendster’s main purpose was for everyone from around the world to interact and socialize with their old friends and make new ones.

   Before Facebook there was… Friendster? Yes, that’s right!

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   Why is Friendster so popular?

   • Friendster benefited from being the first big platform out of the gate in the early 2000s. It saw rapid initial growth because, if you wanted to connect with your friends online easily, there wasn't really anywhere else to do it. That was about to change, and quickly. Only a few months after Friendster launched, Myspace emerged, hot on its heels.

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   Did Friendster win the social network race?

   • In what was once a graveyard of failed attempts at building social networks (even Google was brought to its knees), Friendster appeared to emerge as the winner, boasting over 3 million users in less than a year. Many thought Friendster had won the race.

   Before Facebook there was… Friendster? Yes, that’s right!

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9. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 556413Antisocial Media: The Rise and Fall of Friendster - Mental Floss

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   Sep 13, 2018 · His investors believed Friendster could generate billions. Instead, Friendster's momentum stalled. Myspace became the dominant social platform, with Facebook quickly gaining ground.