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Life & fun · March 5, 2015

Friendster

The first 'social network'

Friendster launched on March 5, 2015 with 21 votes, #1,127 of 2,697 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

Friendster is a social networking service originally based in Mountain View, California , founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2002. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. [ 5 ] The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands, and hobbies. Users could share videos, photos, messages, and comments with other members via profiles and networks. [ 5 ] It is considered one of the original social networking services.<sup about="#mwt After the launching of Friendster as a social gaming platform in June 2011, the number…from en.wikipedia.org

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