Internet-based social networking sites like Friendster and MySpace.com have changed the way people connect.
Just ask former social network powerhouses including the WELL, America On-Line, Friendster, MySpace and the rest.
Friendster created the modern social network, but was caught off guard by its success.
LinkedIn and others like Ryze.com and Itsnotwhatyouknow.com are the business equivalents of the popular Web site Friendster.com.
Venture capitalists have ploughed millions of dollars into Friendster and similar community sites.
MySpace and Friendster -- all of Facebook's predecessors -- didn't survive (or didn't continue to grow) for this long.
Facebook predecessors MySpace and Friendster shone brightly but fizzled once finicky teenagers moved on to the next big thing.
Social networking sites such as MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, Friendster and many others count large numbers of children among their users.
Sites like MySpace, Friendster and Bebo, on the other hand, were especially easy to mine for private data, Patton said.
In turn, a friend of Woon's--Jonathan Abrams, cofounder of Friendster, the trendy social networking site--put Cassidy in touch with Thresh, a.k.a.
Neither did Friendster, which is in the middle of massive reorganization mode.
"Friendster still exists, " he said while reminiscing about his dial-up Web history.
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While social networking sites such as Friendster have risen and fallen, online social networking in general is here to stay, Fowler said.
Social networks like Friendster (2002), MySpace (2003), and Facebook (2004) let you stay in touch with a network of people you already know.
The site is not unlike dating websites such as Friendster and match.com, as the bios can have a distinctly personal flavour.
After the tumult of the early years, when the likes of Friendster, Friends Reunited and MySpace, thrived then faded, things seem to have settled down.
This let them avoid the fate of Friendster, for example, an earlier entrant into social media that was a victim of its own success.
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Facebook just had to be better than Friendster and Myspace to become the place we all go to post pictures of our vacations and kids.
Friendster launched in 2002, Myspace in 2003 and Facebook in 2004.
Friendster and MySpace doubled as online pick-up spots, but these days people set up separate profiles on Match.com or OK Cupid if they want to find dates.
So far this includes Google's network, Orkut, as well as LinkedIn, Ning, hi5, Friendster, Xing, Plaxo and a few others.
Just look at the cautionary tale of the overloaded Friendster.
But there are a rare few places where writers can find people like Jonathan Abrams talk about such things like losing control of Friendster, one of the first social networks.
If Facebook starts to feel stale, more of its active users could take longer breaks or leave altogether, like they did with such formerly hot social networks as Friendster and MySpace.
However, by 2032, when Myspace will be able to stop sending in privacy reports, the concept of privacy itself may seem to be as quirky and antique as a Friendster beta invite.
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Since October MOL and Friendster have had a strategic partnership in which MOL agreed to provide a variety of payment services to Friendster users, including a virtual wallet and fraud management services.
The decline of MySpace again shows the fragility of social media, where fickle consumers and changing tastes can make sensations out of services like Tribe and Friendster, which quickly fade from public imagination.
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There are many ways in which Friendster was different from the social networks of today, but the biggest difference may be that on Friendster, you could see when someone looked at your profile.
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Friendster failed because of operational weakness, said Zemlin.
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While there is always the chance that Bitcoin as a currency could prove to be more Friendster than Facebook, the underlying model has already broken important new ground in the area of p2p transactions.
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