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  2. Friendster - Wikipedia

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    Friendster was a social network based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2003. [2] [3] Later, the company became a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content ...

  3. Jonathan Abrams - Wikipedia

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    Friendster. Friendster was an early social network that once boasted over 111 million users and was the inspiration behind MySpace and other more modern social networks. Google offered to buy the company in 2003 for $30 million in Google stock (about 200 million shares) before Google had IPO'd in 2005.

  4. Timeline of social media - Wikipedia

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    Its name is an acronym for "Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, coined by Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog. [citation needed] 1990s–2000s. Various notable social media platforms such as Myspace and Facebook are developed and released, and blogging begins to gain popularity.

  5. Yet another Social Games Portal Emerges: Friendster is back - AOL

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    Friendster, like the phoenix has thousands of times before, has risen again renewed, refreshed and predictably re-branded. TechCrunch reports that the failed social network, after it shut its ...

  6. Facebook is still thriving 20 years later. Here’s how - AOL

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    Friendster, a social network site launched in 2002, also failed to stick around — ceasing operations in June 2015 after transitioning to a social gaming site years earlier.

  7. Social media use in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Social networking is one of the most active web -based activities in the Philippines, with Filipinos being declared as the most active users on a number of web-based social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter. The use of social networking website has become so extensive in the Philippines that the country has been ...

  8. Friendster bought by online gaming payment company - AOL

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    Just as the wounds surrounding digital payment company Offerpal and social gaming heavy Zynga are just starting to heal, MOL Global Ptr. Ltd. an online digital payment company that facilitates ...

  9. Social networking service - Wikipedia

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    A social networking service or SNS (sometimes called a social networking site) is a type of online social media platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. [1] [2]