Twenty years after its launch, social media giant Facebook continues to show unprecedented staying power after burying early competitors like MySpace and Friendster and establishing a distinct ...

Orkut. Google has been trying to launch their own social network for years. In January 2004, the tech company made a big ...

Friendster. At one point, Friendster was considered the premier social media site. Within just a few months of its launch, ...

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Social networking, as we’ve come to know it, is probably on the way out. It was once a big draw for all kinds of people, and at the same time an amazing way to harvest personal data that could ...

Twenty years after its launch, social media giant Facebook continues to show unprecedented staying power after burying early competitors like MySpace and Friendster and establishing a distinct ...

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