Social Networks

Social networks and communities that lost their users, from Friendster and MySpace to Google+ and Path.

22 projects

MySpace A place for friends 2003–now Social Networks Ello "You Are Not a Product", then it took the venture money 2014–2023 Social Networks Twitter Fleets Twitter's disappearing posts, built to make quiet users braver, dead in under nine months 2020–2021 Social Networks Google+ The social network everyone was signed up to and nobody used 2011–2019 Social Networks Path The social network with a 50-friend limit, big in Indonesia, closed by Kakao 2010–2018 Social Networks Klout The site that scored your online influence from 1 to 100, sold for $200 million and switched off the week GDPR arrived 2008–2018 Social Networks Miiverse Nintendo's hand-drawn social network 2012–2017 Social Networks Yik Yak Anonymous, local, and impossible to moderate 2013–2017 Social Networks App.net Users paid for it, and it still was not enough 2012–2017 Social Networks Emojli The social network where your username and every message had to be emoji, built as a joke, closed eleven months later 2014–2015 Social Networks Friendster The social network that came first 2002–2015 Social Networks FriendFeed The feed that taught Facebook to Like 2007–2015 Social Networks Orkut Brazil's living room, built in a 20% project 2004–2014 Social Networks Bebo The $850 million write-off 2005–2013 Social Networks Formspring Ask me anything, anonymously: the Q and A site that reached 30 million accounts, then drowned in the harassment its own anonymity produced 2009–2013 Social Networks Seesmic Loic Le Meur's video Twitter that became a Twitter client that became a Salesforce app and was finally sold to HootSuite for its users 2007–2013 Social Networks iTunes Ping Apple built a social network inside iTunes, launched it without Facebook and without the songs, and closed it after two years of silence 2010–2012 Social Networks Digg The front page of the web, until v4 2004–2012 Social Networks Jaiku A month older than Twitter, bought by Google, shelved 2006–2012 Social Networks Google Buzz The launch that put Google under 20 years of privacy audits 2010–2011 Social Networks Dodgeball Text your location to a short code and find your friends nearby: the check-in before Foursquare, bought by Google in 2005 and abandoned in 2009 2003–2009 Social Networks Pownce Eighteen months, and invitations sold on eBay 2007–2008 Social Networks