Hey is the subject heading that each of these lovely ladies chose for the messages they sent me via Friendster, a social-networking site that I haven’t visited with any regularity since 2006.

Friendster announced a relaunch last week and, responsible journalist that I am, I wanted to sign up for an account and investigate the service thoroughly before ripping it to pieces. The first ...

See About archive blog posts. Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams at the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose in 2007. Courtesy of Abrams Facebook, with more than 250 million active users, and Twitter ...

Before Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, Friendster was the social media king. Now, Friendster is barely an afterthought in its home country, although it hasn't disappeared. The Mountain View firm is ...

From Yik Yak to Friendster, there have been plenty of short-lived social media sites that were popular one day and gone the next. Only a handful of social media platforms have dominated our ...

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 ...

Let me just admit it. I have not been a very good Friendster. And this has let some people down. I’m sorry. Frankly, I was caught off guard by how serious everyone is about it. Friendster ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- This is the way social networks end: Not with a bang, but a "pivot." Friendster, a pioneering social networking site launched in the pre-Facebook days of 2002, has been ...

What kills a social network? A group of internet archeologists have picked over the digital bones of Friendster – the pioneering social networking site that drowned in Facebook's wake – and we ...