In this article, we'll discuss what made Friendster, Myspace, and Second Life popular, and what eventually happened to each site. Before Facebook became a dominant social media site, a variety of ...

Friendster Inc., one of the top five social networks online, has gone mobile. The ad-supported site is targeted to online users of Friendster as well as consumers engaged in social networking. The ...

That same year, Friendster was relaunched as a gaming ... it seems, support a social media platform. In 2011, the company launched Google+. Similar to Facebook, users could share messages and ...

In 1997, the first social media network was SixDegrees.com, named for "six degrees of separation." Lasting until 2001, it was followed by Friendster and MySpace a year later. Started by two ...

For many users of contemporary social media, the Social Year Zero would probably be 2002, when Friendster first appeared online and posited the use “friend” as a verb. But MoFo’s Delaney ...

Social media has become such a key component of most people's lives that it is easy to think that it has always been there.

In the early days of social media, platforms like Friendster, Myspace, and Facebook were designed to be all things to all ...