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. Facebook had been ...

Over the next few years, Friendster experienced low user and community engagement, and ultimately shut down in 2015. Did you know that Apple once started their own social network just for music?

Friendster arose from its ashes in 2002 ... not to mention massively profitable—a catastrophic combination. The terms social network and social media are used interchangeably now, but they ...

Axios managing editor of technology Scott Rosenberg put it like this in a Monday post: “Mark last week as the end of the social networking era, which began with the rise of Friendster in 2003 ...

From 2010 until its end in 2015, Friendster shifted focus from a network for connecting friends to a “…social gaming destination of choice.” It allowed people to connect, play games ...